Happiness Quotes - Page 22

• Earth laughs in flowers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Nature, Laughter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016). “Selected Writings”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• The only joy in the world is to begin.

  Cesare Pavese

  Inspirational, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.55, Transaction Publishers

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• Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Change, Appreciation, Integrity

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• I've realized that being happy is a choice.

  Angelina Jolie

  Choices, Wrong Way

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• I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jesus, Discovery, Two

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1975). “Jesus, the Man who lives”, HarperCollins

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• If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

  Georges Simenon

  Justice, World, Whole

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• A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

  Anne Frank

  Make Others Happy, Misery, Have Courage

  Anne Frank (2010). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.211, Anchor

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• We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Knows

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• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Laughter, Christian Inspirational, Joy

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.76, FV Éditions

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• For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Spring, Flower, Joy

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  Orson Welles

  Writing, Optimistic, Stories

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.221, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Independence is happiness.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Independence, Women's Rights

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• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

  Max Planck

  Men, Inner Peace, Bears

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• I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  World, Very Happy

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• It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.

  James Smithson

  Ignorance, Loss, Animal

  James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”

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• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

  Don Marquis

  Happy, Inner Peace, Periods

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• Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Happy, Believe, People

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• I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be.

  Lucille Ball

  Believe, Happy Life, Mind

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• How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

  William James

  Laughter, Men, Joy

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves

  Confucius

  Funny, Pain, Humor

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• A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Labor Day, Secret, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.6, Modern Library

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• Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Love, Music, Book

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