Quotes about happiness

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"Happiness is a positive cash flow."

Adler, Fred on happiness   

"Call no man happy till he is dead."

Aeschylus on happiness
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"Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged."

Alcott, Louisa May on happiness
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"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."

Alda, Alan on happiness   

"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on happiness
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"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."

Anderson, Greg on happiness
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"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

Angelis, Barbara De on happiness
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"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on happiness
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"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."

Aristotle on happiness   

"Happiness is activity."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"Happiness is a sort of action."

Aristotle on happiness
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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung."

Aveling, Prof. F. A. P. on happiness   

"Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses."

Baker, Russell (Wayne) on happiness
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."

Ballou, Hosea on happiness
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

Barthel, Mildred on happiness
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"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."

Baughan, R.J. on happiness
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"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."

Bennett, Arnold on happiness   

"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."

Bennett, William John on happiness
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"When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention."

Benson, Edward Frederic on happiness
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"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

Bentham, Jeremy on happiness   

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

Bergman, Ingrid on happiness
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"There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation."

Bergson, Henri L. on happiness   

"Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others."

Bierce, Ambrose on happiness
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"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."

Billings, Josh on happiness   

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time."

Billings, Josh on happiness
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"The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find."

Binstock, Louis on happiness   

"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."

Black, Hugo on happiness   

"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent."

Blanton, Smiley on happiness   

"Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers."

Bonnell, John S. on happiness
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"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."

Boone, Daniel on happiness
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"We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet."

Boyd, William on happiness
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"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!"

Bradley, Amanda on happiness   

"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on happiness
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