Happier Life Quotes - Page 2

• My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

  Coco Chanel

  Hero, Heart, World

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Happiness, Giving, And Love

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• Understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

  Tyler Cowen

  Decision, Understanding, Helping

  "Inside the Mind of the Inner Economist". Interview with Nick Gillespie, reason.com. August 9, 2007.

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• When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Thinking, Doubt, Atheism

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• When I think about that kind of spirit, I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit, because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor.

  Wendy Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "Wendy Davis Concedes Race for Texas Governor With Heartfelt Speech" by Jill Filipovic, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2014.

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• When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.

  Steve Wozniak

  Successful, Thinking, Years

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Real, Loss

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• The most important thing in life is human affection.
  Without it one cannot achieve genuine happiness.
  And if we want a happier life, a happier family, happier neighbours
  or a happier nation, the key is inner quality.
  Even if the five billion human beings that inhabit the earth become
  millionaires, without inner development there cannot be peace
  or any lasting happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Things In Life, Lasting Happiness, Keys

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• Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Keys, Forgive And Forget

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• Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Fashion, Mastery, Gains

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner-continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you-is a fine art, in and of itself.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Art, Jewels, Interesting

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2015). “Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Littles, Understood, Known

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• Medication can help us live a happier life.

  Carnie Wilson

  Helping, Medication

  "Vanessa Lachey and 6 More Stars Open Up About Postpartum Depression" by Jennifer Abbey and Rosalyn Oshmyansky, abcnews.go.com. March 11, 2013.

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• I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Son, Trying

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• A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

  Jane McGonigal

  Motivation, Inspiration, Suffering

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• When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.

  Peter Singer

  Loss, Happy Life, Adverse Effects

  Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• I do think that that would be fair, but I can understand that people would be a little apprehensive to take that road because there is a tradition of natural-born women, but today where there are so many surgeries and so many people out there who have a need to change for a happier life, I do accept that because I believe it’s a free country.

  Olivia Culpo

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Miss USA 2012: Miss Rhode Island Takes the Crown" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 4, 2012.

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• You cannot be successful without passion. If you don't love what you're doing, if you don't have passion for it - forget it. Do something else. You'll be much more successful and you'll lead a lot happier life.

  Donald Trump

  Sports, Passion, Successful

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• In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an atheist. He never promised any such thing. Indeed, following him would inevitably bring divine demotions in the eyes of the world. Rather, I became a Christian because the evidence was so compelling that Jesus really is the one-and-only Son of God who proved his divinity by rising from the dead. That meant following him was the most rational and logical step I could possibly take.

  Lee Strobel

  Christian, Atheist, Jesus

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• There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Encouragement, Unique, Compassion

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• The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Cheer, Teaching

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• Beer may cause you to digress - and lead a happier life.

  Michael Jackson

  Funny, Beer, May

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• It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Way, Dangerous

  L. Ron Hubbard “The Way To Happiness”, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

  Pythagoras

  Friendship, Happy Life, Journey

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• People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

  Tom Clancy

  Communication, Memorable, Technology

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