Happiness Quotes - Page 19

• You can't buy happiness

  Kurt Cobain

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• To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Laughter, Philosophical, Joy

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

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• To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

  Immanuel Hermann Fichte

  Purpose, Deserve

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• I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Attitude, Book, Reading

  William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

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• Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

  Eileen Caddy

  Laughter, Laughing, Joy

  Eileen Caddy (2012). “God Spoke to Me”, p.16, Jaico Publishing House

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• Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Joy, Taste

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• The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Inner Peace, Secret

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Inspiring, Happy

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• Happiness is a state of activity.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

  Aristotle (1998). “The Politics”, p.428, OUP Oxford

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• Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

  Napoleon Hill

  Think And Grow Rich, Happy Inspirational, Found

  Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet

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• Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happy, Laughter, Philosophical

  'Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics' (1785, translation by T. K. Abbott) sect. 2

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• Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

  Rose Kennedy

  Inspirational, Nature, Adversity

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• Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Witty

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.146, Penguin

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• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Laughter, Believe, Joy

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• Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Being Happy, Thankful, Wisdom

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happy, Teacher, Appreciation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.48

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• unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

  Moliere

  Should Have, Unbroken, Bores

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• There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook,
  peace of mind and inner happiness

  Edward Bach

  Inspirational, Change, Happy

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• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Happy, Gratitude, Cheer

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

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• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Happy, Errors

  "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 238, 1932.

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• Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

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• please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Believe, Soon Enough, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2010). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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  The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Family

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• He who sings frightens away his ills.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Music, Singing Songs

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.7

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• You don't have to do anything to be happy, nor do you have to avoid anything. Happiness comes from within your mind. Happiness already exists.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Mind

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