Great Happiness Quotes

• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Horse, Hard Times

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• The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Uplifting, Kindness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2014). “The Art of Being Alive - Revisited (Annotated): Success Through Thought”, p.24, BookBaby

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• Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "A Place Where Happiness Is Truly Supreme" by Ed and Deb Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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• The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

  Peyton C. March

  Love, Happiness, Karma

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• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 238, 1932.

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Men, Inner Peace

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• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Happy, Women

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

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• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Positive, Happiness, Being Yourself

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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