Happy Quotes - Page 6

• The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Retirement

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• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

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• The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Happiness, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

  Ralph Marston

  Happiness, Football, Choices

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• Make us happy and you make us good.

  Robert Browning

  Happiness

  Robert Browning (1998). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VII. The Ring and the Book”, p.234, Oxford University Press

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• Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Spring, First Love

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.127, Routledge

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• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  William Blake

  Life, Happiness, Peace

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Happiness, Littles, Excitement

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Happiness, Fear

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• Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Mean, Men

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

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• So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

  Booth Tarkington

  Happiness, Long, Loses

  Booth Tarkington (1932). “The Works of Booth Tarkington”

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• Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Pain, Mind

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• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Happiness, Differences

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Self Confidence, Thinking

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. April 18, 2014.

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• When children are allowed to help make family decisions, they tend to be much more supportive and happier with family life. Also when allowed to help make rules, they will follow them much closer than if rules are forced on them. All these add up to a happier home for all.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Family, Children, Home

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• Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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  Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Happiness, Business

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• One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Happiness, Loving Yourself

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from May 21, 2012

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• Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)”, p.23, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• My happy thoughts help create my healthy body.

  Louise Hay

  Healthy, Body, Happy Thoughts

  Louise Hay (2011). “21 Days to Master Affirmations”, p.60, Hay House, Inc

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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

  Happiness, 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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• Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Happiness, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.26, Penguin

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