Sharing Happiness Quotes

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Joy Happiness, Way, Looking For Happiness

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Gautama Buddha

Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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Happiness only real when shared.

Christopher McCandless

Happiness, Real

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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Happiness, Freedom

H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.60, Harper Collins

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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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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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Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Bernard Meltzer

Happiness, Happy, Kissing

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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwen

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Og Mandino

Happiness, Smile, Happy

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

Omar Khayyam

Life, Happiness, Happy

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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Happiness, Goodness, Joy Happiness

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Tom Bodett

Love, Happiness, Happy

Tom Bodett (1985). “As Far As You Can Go Without a Passport: The View from the End of the Road : Comments and Comic Pieces”, Perseus Books

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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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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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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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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Lord Byron

Happiness, Meaningful, Angel

Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happiness, Being Happy, Self Esteem

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Life, Motivational, Positive

Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Life, Happiness, Happy

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

Martha Washington

Happiness, Happy, Attitude

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

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

Denis Waitley

Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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