Happiness Quotes - Page 16

• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Yoga, Make Happy

  Title of poem (1942)

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• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Happy

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• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Space, Suffering, Surprise

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.87, A&C Black

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  The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Laughter

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• Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mind, Shadow, Speak

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• Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Life, People, Inner Peace

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• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

  William Hazlitt

  Beauty, Laughter, Eye

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.161

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• If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

  Connie Sellecca

  Success, Happy, Believe

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Smile, Happy

  The Friend (1828)

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

  Don Herold

  Inspirational, Happy, Knowing

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• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Being Happy, Creativity, True Joy

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• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Nature, Shows

  William Cowper, John MACDIARMID (Editor of the “Dumfries and Galloway Courier.”.) (1819). “Poems ... To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author; also, critical remarks on his poems, written expressly for this work. By John M'Diarmid. Second edition, revised and extended”, p.71

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• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Happy, Faith, Mother

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Ironic, Irony, Sometimes

  Alexander McCall Smith (2002). “Morality for Beautiful Girls”, Anchor

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• He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eulogy, Done, Enjoy

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• When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.83, Verso

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• Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

  Alexander Pope

  Laughter, Men, Air

  'Ode on Solitude' (written c.1700, when aged about twelve)

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• You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".

  Lauren Oliver

  Bad Day, Happy Times, Unhappy

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

  Albert Ellis

  Responsibility, Destiny, Control Of Your Life

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• There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

  Tony Robbins

  Happy, Encouragement, Differences

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jan 08, 2015

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• Go, forget me! why should sorrow
  O'er that brow a shadow fling?
  Go, forget me, and to-morrow
  Brightly smile and sweetly sing!
  Smile,—though I shall not be near thee;
  Sing,—though I shall never hear thee!

  Charles Wolfe

  Smile, Laughter, Joy

  Charles Wolfe (1827). “Remains of the Late Rev. Charles Wolfe ...: With a Brief Memoir of His Life”, p.44

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• Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Feelings, Causes, Action

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, p.37, Vintage

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• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Yoga, Benefits, World

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'An Apology for Idlers'

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