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"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness." "A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature." "A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." "A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down." "A joy that's shared is a joy made double." "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." "A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience." "A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance." "A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations." "A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and
happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence... of the voyager." "A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two,
has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else." "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and
judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." "Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will." "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." "All that we are is the result of what we have thought... If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows
him... If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him." "All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now. Growth itself
contains the germ of happiness." "And so, peace of mind is the most important key to peace on earth. It is our strength to be peacemakers. It is our reward
as peacemakers. It is the beginning and the end of the riddle. Inner peace is the secret of happiness and fulfillment. It is a reason for living,
and the strength to share life, love and the hope of peace on earth." "As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!" "As we are now living in an eternity, the time to be happy is today." "Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so." "Be happy. It's one way of being wise." "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." "Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I
love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm
ambitious for that, too." "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it." "Blessed are the happiness makers. Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer." "But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes." "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads." "Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!" "Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline." "Contentment makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor." "Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy
purchase." "Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty." "Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a 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." "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes
of life and forms of government." "Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for
you to follow." "Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself." "Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good;
exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you
a good lift." "Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?" "Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it." "Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation." "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." "Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." "Every life has its dark and cheerful hours. Happiness comes from choosing which to remember." "Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy." "Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent
lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness." "Fate often puts all the material of happiness into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them." "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." "For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe." "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." "Freedom is the real foundation of happiness." "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." "Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with." "Happiness - that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life - impels us through all its mazes and meanderings,
but leads none of us by the same route." "Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself: It is a by-product of
working, playing, loving and living." "Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others." "Happiness and sorrow are twins. Let them come and go like clouds." "Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best." "Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every
minute with love, grace, and gratitude." "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." "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." "Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose." "Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool." "Happiness consists of three things: someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience." "Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys
it at its very peak." "Happiness depends on ourselves." "Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a
difficult task that demanded our best." "Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do." "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens..." "Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower." "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." "Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past." "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." "Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals." "Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may
alight upon you." "Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself." "Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy." "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." "Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted." "Happiness is a habit - cultivate it." "Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy." "Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object." "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with
self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self." "Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself." "Happiness is a positive cash flow." "Happiness is a state of activity." "Happiness is a state of mind. Lincoln once said: We are as happy as we make up our minds to be." "Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy - a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your
values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your minds fullest power, not the joy of
faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer..." "Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when
it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is
shared." "Happiness is a Swedish sunset - it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it." "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." "Happiness is almost always a rebound from hard work." "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to
children, and by children to adults." "Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing." "Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation." "Happiness is found along the way - not at the end of the road." "Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit." "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." "Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances." "Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things,
it comes and softly sits on your shoulder." "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." "Happiness is like a kiss... you must share it to enjoy it." "Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring." "Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor
have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door." "Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it." "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." "Happiness is never stopping to think if you are." "Happiness is not a destination you arrive. It it the journey you take to get there." "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." "Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product." "Happiness is not a place to travel, but a way of getting there." "Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind." "Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result." "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have." "Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing." "Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory." "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." "Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory." "Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself." "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open." "Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it." "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of ones values." "Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others." "Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye." "Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness." "Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep." "Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience." "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." "Happiness is what happens to us when we try to make someone else happy." "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." "Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make
pursuant to our individual organization." "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." "Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to
weeds." "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open." "Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow." "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!" "Happiness walks on busy feet." "Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have." "Happy is he to whom, in the maturer season of life, there remains one tried and constant friend..." "Happy is he who has overcome his ego; happy is he who has attained peace; happy is he who has found the truth." "Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has
deprived misfortune of its power." "Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship." * My Favorite Quotes on Happiness and Inner Peace - Part 1 / 3 * My Favorite Quotes on Happiness and Inner Peace - Part 2 / 3 * My Favorite Quotes on Happiness and Inner Peace - Part 3 / 3  |
