Truly Happy Quotes - Page 2

• The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happy, Fear, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  People, Research, Way

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• The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.

  Russell Brand

  Falling In Love, Heart, Purpose

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

  Brian Tracy

  Happiness, Needs, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Nov 13, 2009

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• The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Men, Earth, Wealth

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• A quality person is someone with integrity. To be worthy of the highest trust is a noble attribute and compliment. You will need to maintain confidences. Certainly it is greater to be trusted than loved. Truly happy persons will always be totally honest in their dealings with their fellowman.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Integrity, Compliments You, Quality

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• There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, Shoes, People

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.522, Macmillan

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• I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Sorrow, Realizing, Known

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.174, St. Martin's Press

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• A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

  John Irving

  Crazy, Men, Happy Woman

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch..... Laura Acosta

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Eye, Mirrors, Bed

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Fatigue Artist”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Our moments are music, and sometimes – just sometimes – we can catch them and put them into some lasting form. If we didn’t have music, I don’t think we could ever be truly happy, and if we didn’t have special moments, we would never find music.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Special, Sometimes

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• Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Memories, Shining, Happy Memories

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.100, Grove Press

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• Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

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• But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.

  David Deida

  Maturity, Age, Depth

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• But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Laughter, Tired, Missing

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “PS, I love you”

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• Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

  Tyler Perry

  Happiness, Safe, Rest Of Your Life

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• You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

  Taylor Swift

  Choices, Like Yourself, Ifs

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• To be truly happy you must recognize who you are with nothing.

  Gangaji

  Awareness, Who You Are

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• To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Letting Go, Mean

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• A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

  Ayya Khema

  Independent, Happy Person, Persons

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• The only time that I am really truly happy—when I feel at my best—is when I'm on the stage.

  Etta James

  Stage, Feels, Only Time

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• One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.

  William Carlos Williams

  Optimistic, Make Others Happy, Perfect

  William Carlos Williams, John C. Thirlwall (1957). “The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• Success is a learnable skill. You can learn to succeed at anything. If you want to be a great golfer, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be a great piano player, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be truly happy, you can learn how to do it. If you want to be rich, you can learn how to do it. It doesn't matter where you are right now. It doesn't matter where you're starting from. What matters is that you are willing to learn.

  T. Harv Eker

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Apr 15, 2015

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• Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

  Eric Edmeades

  Life, Success, Congratulations

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• Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62

  Craig Clevenger

  Children, Regret, Newborn Child

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