Quotes about happiness

"What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation."

Buchan, John on happiness   

"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life."

Buckrose, J.E on happiness
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on happiness   

"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on happiness
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"The secret of happiness is something to do."

Burroughs, John on happiness
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"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin."

Byron, Lord on happiness
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"When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."

Carlyle, Thomas on happiness   

"But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all."

Carlyle, Thomas on happiness   

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."

Carnegie, Dale on happiness
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"In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

Caron, Leslie on happiness
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"That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great."

Cather, Willa on happiness
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"It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow."

Cervantes, Miguel De on happiness   

"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."

Chalmers, Allan K. on happiness
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"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."

Chambers, Oswald on happiness   

"The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on happiness   

"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on happiness
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"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."

Chopra, Deepak on happiness   

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

Chuang Tzu on happiness
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"We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on happiness   

"Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy."

Cloete, Stuart on happiness
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"The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved."

Clyde, R.D. on happiness
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"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."

Cobbett, William on happiness   

"Be happy or die."

Cohen, Rob on happiness
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"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

Colton, Charles Caleb on happiness
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"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route"

Colton, Charles Caleb on happiness   

"We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves."

Confucius on happiness
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"Happiness seems made to be shared."

Corneille, Pierre on happiness   

"Happiness lies first of all in health."

Curtis, George William on happiness   

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."

Davies, Robertson on happiness   

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

Democritus on happiness
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"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."

Dewey, John on happiness   

"Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine."

Diderot, Denis on happiness