Happiness Quotes - Page 13

• Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Positive, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 12, 2011

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• Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mazes, Routes, Happiness And Love

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.165

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• When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, People, Prison

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• Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

  Mark Twain

  Contrast, Pleasant

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Literature, Mystery, Should

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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  You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sad, Being Happy, Believe

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Happiness was born a twin.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Twins, Born

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

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• After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Real, Night

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 04, 2016

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• It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Too Much, Obstacles

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• The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Happy, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Happiness does not consist in things themselves but in the relish we have of them; and a man has attained it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and desirable.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, People

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• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

  Ben Stein

  Accomplishment, Inner Peace, Triumph

  Ben Stein (2010). “How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Passion, Men, Intellectual

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• Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Attachment, Enjoy

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

  Alphonse Karr

  Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

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• All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

  Dennis Prager

  Ungrateful People, Adversity, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 30, 2016

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• For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

  Jonathan Swift

  Possession, Deceived, Wells

  "A Modest Proposal and Other Prose".

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• Don't Worry Be Happy

  Meher Baba

  Being Happy, Morning, Christian Inspirational

  Meher Baba (1977). “Not we but one”

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• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Smile, Laughter

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• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Being Happy

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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

  George Santayana

  Laughter, Mad, Joy

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

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• If you pursue happiness you never find it.

  C.P. Snow

  Inner Peace, Pursue, Ifs

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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happy, Gratitude, Cheer

  "The Nice And The Good".

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• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  Mark Twain

  Happy, People, Joy

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.103, Book Tree

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