Happiness Quotes - Page 18

• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Happy, Quality

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happy, Positive Thinking, Positivity

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• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Happy, Men

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• Happiness is a warm puppy.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Life, Dog, Humor

  Peanuts (comic strip), 25 Apr. 1960

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• I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Happy Life

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.173, Del Rey

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• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Being Happy, Time, Addiction

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

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• Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

  John Lubbock

  Life And Love, Violin, Art Of Happiness

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• There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

  Sivananda

  Laughter, Joy, Contentment

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• Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happy, Greatness, Done

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• To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

  John Dewey

  Work, Opportunity, Keys

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.311, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

  John Keats

  Beauty, Nature, Garden

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Equality, Egalitarianism, Political

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 7 Apr. 1776)

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• Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Mean, Humility

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.3190, e-artnow

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• People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

  John Jay Chapman

  Worry, People, Chocolate

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• To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

  Bertrand Russell

  Funny, Laughter, Past

  "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell, (Ch. 13), 1930.

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• Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

  Earl Nightingale

  Cherish Every Moment, Enjoy It While It Lasts, Enjoy Life

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• Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

  Phillips Brooks

  Happy, Flower, Natural

  Phillips Brooks, Ellen Wilbur (2003). “The Consolations of God: Great Sermons of Phillips Brooks”, p.53, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Happy, Wise

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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• If you want to find greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, you must begin to understand and live in harmony with the law of attraction.

  Jack Canfield

  Law Of Attraction, Want, Harmony

  Jack Canfield, D. D. Watkins (2007). “Jack Canfield's Key to Living the Law of Attraction: A Simple Guide to Creating the Life of Your Dreams”, p.3, Health Communications, Inc.

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• It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

  Adele

  Stupid, Issues, Caesar Salad

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• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Best Friend, Vocabulary

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Joy, Ascending

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The secret of happiness is something to do.

  John Burroughs

  Inner Peace, Secret

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Inspiring, Attitude, Stress

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

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