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1) ”We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”-Thomas Merton
2) ”Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”-William Feather
3) ”Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”-Buddha
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4) ”Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.”-Robert S. Lynd
5) ”Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”-Sri Chinmoy
6) ”The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”-James Oppenheim
7) ”If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else.”-Chinese Proverb
8) ”One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”- Chinese Proverb
9) ”Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”-Jim Rohn
10) ”It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”-Dale Carnegie
11) ”Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”-Johnny Carson
12) ”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”-Mahatma Gandhi
13) ”Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”-Benjamin Franklin
14) ”For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
15) ”Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”-John Stuart Mill
16) ”We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”-Walter Savage Landor
17) ”We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”-George Bernard Shaw
18) ”When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.”-Niccolo Machiavelli
19) ”If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”-Bertrand Russell
20) ”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, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.”-W. Beran Wolfe
21) ”The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”-George Bernard Shaw
22) ”Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls”-Mother Teresa
23) ”A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.”
24) ”Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”-Sigmund Freud
25) ”If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”-Dalai Lama
26) ”If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”-Andrew Carnegie
27) ”Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne
28) ”The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”-Robert Louis Stevenson
29) ”Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
30) ”Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”-Omar Khayyam
31) ”The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”-Mark Twain
32) ”The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
33) ”Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”-St. Augustine
34) ”Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.”-Tom Brady
35) ”Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”-Fyodor Dostoevsky
36) ”Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”-W.P. Kinsella
37) ”No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”-Barbara DeAngelis
38) ”Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.”-Colette
39) ”Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”-Albert Schweitzer
40) ”Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.”-Alan Cohen
41) ”If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.”
42) ”You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.”-Henepola Gunaratana
43) ”There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”-Benjamin Franklin
44) ”On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”-William R. Inge
45) ”Whoever is happy will make others happy.”-Anne Frank
46) ”Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”-Abraham Lincoln
47) ”Happy girls are the prettiest.”-Audrey Hepburn
48) ”The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”-J.D. Salinger
49) ”Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”-Robert Anthony
50) ”Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”-Helen Keller
51) ”You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”-Epicurus
52) ”You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”-Albert Camus
53) ”If you want to be happy, be.”-Leo Tolstoy
54) ”I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.”-Allen J. Lefferdink
55) ”We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”-Anne Frank
56) ”If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”-Taisen Deshimaru
57) ”Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
58) ”Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”-Robert Frost
59) ”Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”-Aristotle
60) ”Happiness is an inside job.”-William Arthur Ward
61) ”If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”-Edith Wharton
62) ”People should find happiness in the little things, like family.”-Amanda Bynes
63) ”The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”-William Saroyan
64) ”The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”-William Morris
65) ”Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.”-Alain De Botton
66) ”Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”-Ayn Rand
67) ”Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”-Mildred Barthel
68) ”Happiness is a state of activity.”- Aristotle
69) ”The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.”-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
70) ”Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”-Robert A. Heinlein
71) ”Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing… just expressed differently.”-Robert McPhillips
72) ”Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”-Roy T. Bennett
73) ”Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”-Robert Anthony
74) ”To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.”-Robert Brault
75) ”It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.”-Sir Richard Branson
76) ”There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.”-Thich Nhat Hanh
77) ”Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”-Pat Conroy
78) ”Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.”-Norman Bradburn
79) ”Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”-Orhan Pamuk
80) ”Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.”-Norm Papernick
81) ”Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.”-Naval Ravikant
82) ”Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.”-Nathaniel Hawthorne
83) ”Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman. Or a bad woman.”-George Burns
84) ”Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”-Mark Twain
85) ”Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.”-Mignon McLaughlin
86) ”Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”-Maxim Gorky
87) ”Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck.”-Mary Wilson Little
88) ”In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.”-Marla Gibbs
89) ”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”-Mahatma Gandhi
90) ”Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress – the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.”-Mark Manson
91) ”Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”-Margaret Lee Runbeck
92) ”There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”- Lady Blessington
93) ”The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”-Marcus Aurelius
94) ”He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”-Marcus Aurelius
95) ”Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”-Marcel Proust
96) ”There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”-Logan Pearsall Smith
97) ”In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?”-Leslie Caron
98) ”As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.”-Andrew Delbanco
99) ”You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.”-Lauren Oliver
100) ”Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”-Werner Erhard
101) ”If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.”-Lao Tzu
102) ”It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”-L.M. Montgomery
103) ”The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”-Joseph Roux
104) ”Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”-Joseph Addison
105) ”You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”-Jonathan Safran Foer
106) ”Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.”-John Stuart Mill
107) ”Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
108) ”Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.”- J. Petit Senn
109) ”I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”-Jane Austen
110) ”The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”-James Oppenheim
111) ”Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”-Hosea Ballou
112) ”Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.”-James Lendall Basford
113) ”Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.”-J.M. Reinoso
114) ”Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”-Iris Murdoch
115) ”Happiness is the natural flower of duty.”- Phillips Brooks
116) ”Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”-Guillaume Apollinaire
117) ”All happiness depends on courage and work.”-Honoré de Balzac
118) ”True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”-Helen Keller
119) ”Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.”-Hazelmarie Elliott
120) ”Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.”-H.W. Byles
121) ”Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”-Gretta Brooker Palmer
122) ”How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.”-Gerald Jampolsky
123) ”Happiness is a place between too much and too little.”-Finnish Proverb
124) ”Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”-George Burns
125) ”Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.”-George Bernard Shaw
126) ”There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”-Freya Stark
127) ”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.”-Frederick Keonig
128) ”Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”-Franklin D. Roosevelt
129) ”My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.”-Evangeline Lilly
130) ”The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”-Eric Hoffer
131) ”No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”- Gabriel García Márquez
132) ”The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”-Epictetus
133) ”Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.”-Earl Nightingale
134) ”Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.”-Dr. Idel Dreimer
135) ”Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”-E.L. Konigsburg
136) ”Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”-Douglas Jerrold
137) ”The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”-Doug Larson
138) ”Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”-Don Marquis
139) ”Happiness is only real when shared.”- Jon Krakauer
140) ”Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.”-Divyanka Tripathi
141) ”I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.”-Diego Val
142) ”Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”-Denis Waitley
143) ”We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.”-David C. Hill
144) ”People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.”-Dany Laferrière
145) ”It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”-Dale Carnegie
146) ”Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”-Dalai Lama
147) ”Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”- Eleanor Roosevelt
148) ”Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.”-Cynthia Nelms
149) ”The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”-Chuck Palahniuk
150) ”If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.”-Chinese Proverb
151) ”There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”-Charlotte Bronte
152) ”It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”-Charles Spurgeon
153) ”The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”-Carrie Jones
154) ”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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”-Carl Jung
155) ”Happiness is a form of courage.”- Holbrook Jackson
156) ”There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”-C. JoyBell C.
157) ”To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”-Buddha
158) ”A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”-Bernard de Fontenelle
159) ”To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”-Bertrand Russell
160) ”Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”-Immanuel Kant
161) ”Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”-Benjamin Franklin
162) ”All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”-Baruch Spinoza
163) ”Happiness depends upon ourselves.”-Aristotle
164) ”There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”-George Sand
165) ”The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”-Victor Hugo
166) ”The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.”-V.S. Pritchett
167) ”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.”-Robertson Davies
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