Quotes about happiness

"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light."

Thoreau, Henry David on happiness   

"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage."

Thucydides on happiness
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"Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy."

Tillotson, John on happiness   

"No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be."

Tozer, A. W. on happiness   

"Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them."

Traherne, Thomas on happiness   

"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."

Traherne, Thomas on happiness   

"Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh."

Twain, Mark on happiness
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"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

Twain, Mark on happiness
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"The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true."

Unknown, Source on happiness
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"If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness"

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience."

Unknown, Source on happiness
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"Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."

Unknown, Source on happiness
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"Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances."

Unknown, Source on happiness   

"Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy."

Upanishads, Veda on happiness   

"That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes."

Waitley, Denis on happiness   

"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."

Waitley, Denis on happiness
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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

Waitley, Denis on happiness
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"Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life."

Walpole, Sir Hugh on happiness   

"Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment."

Walters, J. Donald on happiness
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"Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake."

Walters, J. Donald on happiness   

"Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing."

Watson, Lilian Eichler on happiness   

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."

Wharton, Edith on happiness   

"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden."

Wolfe, W, Beran on happiness   

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."

Yeats, William Butler on happiness
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"We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us."

Yeats, William Butler on happiness   

"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!"

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh on happiness
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