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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
- Epicurus
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Best Quotes about Happiness

1.
We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Confucius

2.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Anderson, Greg

3.
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

4.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
Proverb, Russian

5.
The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
Clyde, R.D.

6.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Smith, Adam

7.
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

8.
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Oliphant, Margaret

9.
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero, Marcus T.

11.
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
Boyd, William

12.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman

13.
Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

14.
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

15.
Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Palmer, Gretta Brooker

16.
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
Harrigan, John

17.
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

19.
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.
Hume, David

20.
Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

21.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace

22.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
Barthel, Mildred

23.
The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

24.
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
Nielsen, A.

25.
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
Johnson, Samuel

26.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.
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

29.
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

30.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
Young, Margaret

31.
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.
James, William

32.
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.
Ketchel, Holly

33.
If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
Goldsmith, Oliver

34.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Schweitzer, Albert

35.
Happiness is a positive cash flow.
Adler, Fred

36.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper

37.
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

38.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

39.
No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Solon

40.
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.
Szasz, Thomas

41.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Bono, Edward De

42.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

43.
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
Lubbock, Sir John

44.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

45.
For who is pleased with himself.
Johnson, Samuel

46.
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.

47.
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.
Strindberg, J. August

48.
What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Nash, Fay B.

49.
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

50.
Happiness is a journey not a destination.
Sweetland, Ben


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