Happiness Within Quotes

• 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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• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

  Og Mandino

  Happiness, Smile, Happy

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• Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Thinking, Compassion

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• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

  Og Mandino

  Lying, Effort, Joy

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• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

  Ernie Banks

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

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

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  It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Finding Happiness, Impossible, Difficult

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.13, Publishdrive

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• Realize that true happiness lies within you.

  Lucian

  Inspirational, Faith, Wisdom

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• True happiness lies within you.

  Og Mandino

  Lying, Contentment Peace, True Happiness

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• Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and happiness, within those precincts, and in that station where Providence itself has cast their lot. Happy they who read the riddle without a weary world-search, or a lifetime spent in vain!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Wish, Looks

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.606, Library of America

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• We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even

  Thomas Sankara

  Real, Sacrifice, People

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Home, Joy, Growing

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Letting Go, Retirement, Past

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• Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.

  Ann Brashares

  Moving, Each Day, Littles

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.200, Delacorte Press

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• Beauty comes from the happiness within.

  Liv Tyler

  Beauty

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• The process of finding happiness within one's own Self may be difficult and slow but it cannot be found anywhere else.

  Swami Parthasarathy

  Happiness, Self, May

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• Collectively, we have all it takes to create a just and peaceful world, but we must work together and share our talents. We all need one another to find happiness within ourselves and within the world.

  Craig Kielburger

  Justice, Peaceful, Working Together

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• Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Bullets, Gravity, Centre

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• In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, Intellectual, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “Utilitarianism”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing

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• I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.

  Daniel Tammet

  Contentment, Borders, Kind

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• I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

  Lana Del Rey

  Found Happiness, People, World

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

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• Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happiness, Peace

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• The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

  Herbert Spencer

  Individual Happiness, Limits, Firsts

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Data of Ethics: Great Essays”, p.169, VM eBooks

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