Great Happiness Quotes - Page 5

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  Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Make Others Happy, Chocolate

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  Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

  Aeschylus

  Happiness, Positivity, Effort

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• Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

  Don Herold

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  Saint Augustine

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

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• True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

  John W. Gardner

  Inspirational, Happiness, Using Your Talents

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• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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• You can never get enough of what you don't want.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Happiness, Spiritual

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Unhappy

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1665.

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• I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Happiness, Sarcastic, Philosophy

  "The Beginning of the End" by Peter Hershey, (p. 109), 2004.

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• Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

  Anne Frank

  Nature, Believe, Simple

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

  Og Mandino

  Smile, Being Happy, Giving

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Happiness, Philosophical

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Laughter, Mad

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

  Claude Monet

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Claude Monet (1985). “Monet: a retrospective”

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• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Butterfly, Winter

  Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

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• A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

  John Locke

  Happiness, Get Well, Health

  1693 Some Thoughts Concerning Education, opening words. See Juvenal 453:20.

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• The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

  Joseph Butler

  Happiness, Men, World

  Joseph Butler (1867). “The Analogy of Religion, to the Constitution & Course of Nature...”, p.215

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• Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Change, Happiness, Being Happy

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• To fill the hour──that is happiness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Time Management, Hours

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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