Happiness Quotes - Page 14

• Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Happy, Wise

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• I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Positivity, Thinking, Millions

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Happiness depends upon ourselves.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Adventure, Positivity

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Littles, Being Content

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.13

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• The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

  William Ralph Inge

  Success, Happy, People

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• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Laughter, Crazy

  Man and Superman act 1 (1903)

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• Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Faith

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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Smile, Beautiful

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

  John Locke

  Liberty, Foundation, Pleasure

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• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Happy, Fear

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Make Others Happy, Inner Peace

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

  Edith Wharton

  Butterfly, Winter, Woods

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

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• The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Kings, Famous Inspirational, Science

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Happy Thought" l. 1 (1885)

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Happy, Littles, Excitement

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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• Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Eden, House, Religion

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1131, Harvard University Press

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• Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

  A. A. Milne

  Happy, Thinking, Piglet

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.133, Egmont UK

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• Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Happy

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

  Ashley Montagu

  Happy, Being Happy, Happy Life

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

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• No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

  Helen Keller

  Generosity, Philanthropy

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.154, Matthew Gordon

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• Best things in life aren't things.

  Mike Ness

  Inspirational, Family, Happy

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happy, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Smart, Two

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