Definition Of Happiness Quotes

• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Happiness, Memories

  Time, August 28, 1972.

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Time

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

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• The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Greek

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.380, Best Books on

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• Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.

  Wayne Dyer

  Happiness, Thinking, Way

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.141, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Excellence, Trying

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• Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

  Julian Gough

  Happiness, Hurt, Thinking

  Julian Gough (2001). “Juno and Juliet”

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• My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Women, Definitions, Looks

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

  Jackie Kennedy

  Definitions, Enjoy

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• Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don’t have courage, I dream.

  Clarice Lispector

  Dream, Struggle, Fall

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• As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

  John F. Kennedy

  Happiness, Jobs, Greek

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• If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.

  Herman Koch

  Giving, Would Be, Needs

  Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.11, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• This is the definition of happiness: a whole day stretching out ahead of me, beautiful in its emptiness and simplicity.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Definitions

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.340, Simon and Schuster

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