Quotes about happiness

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens."

Jerrold, Douglas William on happiness   

"Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."

Johnson, Samuel on happiness   

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

Johnson, Samuel on happiness   

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"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."

Johnson, Samuel on happiness   

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling."

Johnson, Samuel on happiness   

"For who is pleased with himself."

Johnson, Samuel on happiness   

"If you can't be happy where you are, it's a cinch you can't be happy where you ain't."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on happiness   

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

Jonson, Ben on happiness
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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Jung, Carl on happiness
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"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it."

Kafka, Franz on happiness   

"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy"

Kant, Immanuel on happiness
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"Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Keller, Helen on happiness
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"True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope."

Kennedy, John F. on happiness
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"My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy."

Ketchel, Holly on happiness
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"Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept."

Keyes Jr., Ken on happiness   

"The secret of happiness and prosperity in this world, as in the world to come, lies in thinking of the welfare of others first, and not taking one's self too seriously."

Kindleberger, J. on happiness   

"I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life -- would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."

King, Coretta Scott on happiness   

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

Kingsley, Charles on happiness   

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

Koenig, Frederick on happiness
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"Happiness is the longing for repetition."

Kundera, Milan on happiness   

"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on happiness
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"We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on happiness
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"No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable."

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth on happiness   

"We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented."

Landor, Walter Savage on happiness   

"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."

Landor, Walter Savage on happiness
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"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."

Lane, Rose Wilder on happiness   

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness."

Lao-Tzu on happiness
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"I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude."

Lee, Bruce on happiness
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"Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads."

Lenus, Nikolaus on happiness   

"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable."

L'Estrange, Sir Roger on happiness
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"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."

Levant, Oscar on happiness   

"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself."

Levenson, Samuel on happiness
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Lewis, C. S. on happiness
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"A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Lincoln, Abraham on happiness
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"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin."

Lubbock, Sir John on happiness   

"Suspicion of happiness is in our blood."

Lucas, E. V. on happiness   

"The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity."

Lucian on happiness   

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

Macewan, Norman on happiness   

"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on happiness   

"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."

Mandino, Og on happiness
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