Happy Quotes - Page 17

• You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

  Gabby Douglas

  God Has A Plan, Rejoice, Plans

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• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Destructive thoughts and emotions undermine the very causes of peace and happiness. If you think clearly about it, it makes no sense to think you’re seeking happiness, if you do nothing to restrain angry, spiteful, and malicious thoughts and emotions.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Causes, Emotion

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• It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true.

  Wayne Dyer

  Positive, Happiness, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jun 24, 2015

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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Positivity

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• In true love you want your partner to be happy.
  In false love you want your partner.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love You, False Love, Want

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• You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, May, Matter

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2012

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• You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

  Philippe Starck

  Depression, Color, Yellow

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• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  Cory Booker

  Hopeful, Be Kind, Discouraged

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Mar 02, 2016

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• Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Peaceful, Words Of Wisdom

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• I'm now nearly 79. At 16 I took responsibility for Tibet and lost my freedom. At 24 I lost my country and became a refugee. I've met difficulties, but as the saying goes: 'Wherever you're happy, you can call home, and whoever is kind to you is like your parents.' I've been happy and at home in the world at large. Living a meaningful life isn't just a matter of money; it's about dedicating your life to helping others.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Country, Home

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• Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

  Esther Hicks

  Personal Things

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• You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Order, Joy

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Greed, Inner Peace

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• The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger - the greatest threat to our inner peace, and therefore our happiness. The mind, or spirit, is not physical, it cannot be touched or harmed directly. Only negative thoughts and emotions can harm it. Therefore, only the corresponding positive quality can protect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Patience, Powerful, Inner Peace

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• I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

  Dalai Lama

  Animal, Opportunity, Indulge In

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• Jesus' teaching in general [implies] that happy and fulfilling sexual relations in marriage depend on each partner aiming to give satisfaction to the other. If it is the joy of each to make the other happy, a hundred problems will be solved before they happen.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Teaching, Giving

  John Piper (2013). “This Momentary Marriage”, p.88, SPCK

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• When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sunshine, Fog, Unhappy

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• Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.

  Dalai Lama

  New Year, Our World, Years

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• The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Men, Bees, Dolphins

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• Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Life, Good Morning, Laughing

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• I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as something special, it would create a barrier between us. What makes us the same is that we all want to lead happy lives and gather friends around us. And friendship is based on trust, honesty and openness.

  Dalai Lama

  Honesty, Happy Life, Thinking

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• All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.

  Shantideva

  Happiness, Desire

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• We are destined for joy no matter how difficult our daily life. Something in us responds to the happiness other people experience, because we glimpse life as God intended it to be.

  Barbara Johnson

  People, Joy, Glimpse

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