Quotes about happiness




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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier."

Young, Margaret on happiness    Share


"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself"

Zee, James Van Der on happiness    Share

"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory."

Ziglar, Zig on happiness
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"People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow."

Zimbler, Adam on happiness    Share

"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."

Beckett, Samuel on happiness    Share

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations."

Bono, Edward De on happiness    Share

"There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow."

Brande, Dorothea on happiness    Share

"Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on happiness    Share

"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."

Carlyle, Thomas on happiness    Share

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"Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on happiness    Share

"He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong."

Greene, Graham on happiness    Share

"Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it."

Herold, Don on happiness    Share

"The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added."

Johnson, Samuel on happiness    Share

"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy."

Knuth, Don on happiness    Share

"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on happiness
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"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."

Maslow, Abraham H. on happiness    Share

"It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness."

Santayana, George on happiness
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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."

Shaw, George Bernard on happiness
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"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

Weil, Simone on happiness    Share

"The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory"

Bergman, Ingrid on happiness    Share

"sometimes happiness is hard to find"

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"Full happiness comes from fully happy relationships. Anyone who denies this simply has not fully drunk from the infinite well of love."

Oshana Dave on happiness    Share

"Blaming another person for your unhappiness is like blaming them for your high cholesterol. Either one will eventually kill you. "

anomynous on happiness    Share

"There is a simple and direct way to happiness. Complicated methods are simply wrong"

Oshana Dave on happiness    Share

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

Dalai Lama on happiness    Share

"Blessed is who has done nothing to regret."

Tadj Abelkader on happiness    Share

"“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”"

Wolestoncraft, Mary on happiness    Share

"Being too suspicious of your happiness will inevitably lead you back to a space where there is none. There is an element of mystery to every happiness."

Trean, A. Brandon on happiness    Share

" The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal>"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on happiness    Share

"The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy."

Lightman, Alan on happiness    Share

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.~ James Oppenheim"

Oppenheim, James on happiness    Share

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