He Makes Me Happy Quotes - Page 2

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Andre Maurois

Happiness, Being Happy, Business

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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anthony de Mello

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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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, Happy

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Happiness, Happy, Determination

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Happiness, Happy, Success

Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

Life, Happiness, Happy

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Friendship, Happiness, Happy

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Nhat Hanh

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

"3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mood in 2 Minutes" by Daniela Tempesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

Douglas Adams

You Make Me Happy, People, Unhappy

Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

Jim Butcher

Being Yourself, Travel, Clever

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Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

Charles Caleb Colton

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Drew Barrymore

Happiness, Beauty, Beautiful

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