Happiness Quotes - Page 29

• Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

  Plutarch

  Happy, Speak Less, Inner Peace

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• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

  William Feather

  Civilization, Inner Peace, Found

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• I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Memories, Life And Love

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• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.77, 谷月社

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• The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Success, Travel

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

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• Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

  Marquis de Sade

  Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination, Ideals

  Marquis de Sade (1993). “The Crimes of Love: 3 Novellas”, Bantam Classics

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• When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Happy, Children

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• There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feelings, Comfort, Creatures

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

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• There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Bad Day, Laughing, Lovely

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

  Dale Carnegie

  Horse, Hard Times, Insperational

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• Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Thinking, Compassion, Firsts

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• It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Inner Peace, Eulogy, Mind

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• Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Positive, Happy

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.95, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Quality, Genius

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

  Euripides

  Happy, Joy, Sailing

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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• Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

  Euripides

  Not Happy, Neighbor, Stills

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happy, Joy, Inner Peace

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

  Graham Greene

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

  William James

  Laughter, Laughing, Happiness And Laughter

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• What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Fake People, Humor, Adversity

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• In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

  Franz Kafka

  Laughter, Believe, Perfect

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

  Helen Keller

  Happy, Wise, Mean

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happy, Hope

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

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• 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

  Life, Spiritual, New Year

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• Spread compassion all around you. Look around you - people are so unhappy, don't add to their unhappiness. Your compassion will lessen their unhappiness; just one word of compassion will lessen their unhappiness. Don't add to their unhappiness.

  Rajneesh

  Compassion, People, Unhappy

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