Happy Life Quotes - Page 16

• Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

  Ben Parr

  Philosophy, Mistake, Successful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

  Van Morrison

  Life, Regret, Inspire

  "What's Wrong With This Picture?". Interview with Niall Stokes, www.hotpress.com. October 28, 2003.

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• Before you ever receive the wonderful treasures of a happy life, you must first give. Give of yourself. Be of service to others. Only what you give can be multiplied back into your own life.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Giving, Treasure, Firsts

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• I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Order, Play, Differences

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

  Wayne Dyer

  Each Day, Moments, Barometer

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "A Place Where Happiness Is Truly Supreme" by Ed and Deb Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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

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• People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.

  Peter Cameron

  Life, Fashion, Simple

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• Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Path, Life Is

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.104

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• You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Thinking, Play, Tragedy

  Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants. Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging. Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. -Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life

  Lauren Myracle

  Play, Elephants, Two

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• And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found at the old industrial park," he said. "A construction guy said they were bulldozing the whole lot. They're afraid of sink holes like that one that swallowed the cars." His wife poured him some water from the sink as he fingered the tiny bike and the ballet shoe, the flower basket and the thimble. He held out the muddy bracelet as she set down his glass. This little girl's grown up by now," she said. Almost. Not quite. I wish you all a long and happy life.

  Alice Sebold

  Girl, Flower, Men

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• My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Horse, Adventure, Son

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• A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

  David Wroblewski

  People, Matter, Normal

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• I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.

  Susane Colasanti

  Life, Song, Answers

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.200, Penguin

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• My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, Journey, Men

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• Happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

  Aristotle

  Long, Effort, Suffering

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• If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Heart, Frustration

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• Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

  Dean Koontz

  Fun, Character, Found You

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• There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect.

  Patton Oswalt

  Media, People, Trying

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• I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

  Isabel Allende

  Strength, Strong, Loss

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• We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Giving Up, Inspiration

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• Trusting fear, while fearing trust and happiness often creates a less than happy life.

  Bill Crawford

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• Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

  John Arbuthnot

  Secret, Apologizing

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