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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps,
the chief happiness which this world affords.
--Samuel Johnson
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.
--Og Mandino motivational speaker
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
--John Lubbock
The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a
cause greater than yourself.
--Unknown
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that
occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen
but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
--Benjamin Franklin
Happiness walks on busy feet.
--Kitte Turmell
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something;
to secure it in this world, we must do something.
--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
--Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel (1907-1990) American theologian,
author and educator
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
--Don Herold
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
--Dave Gardner Check this
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving;
make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.
--Amanda Bradley
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
--C.P. Snow
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
--Mary Wollstonecraft
We are convinced that happiness is never to be found,
and each believes it is possessed by others, to keep alive
the hope of obtaining it for himself.
--Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.
--Joseph Addison Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (editor)
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 (1913-1960)
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
--Richard Bach
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he
undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness,
this is success.
--Orison Swett Marden
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes,
but in liking what one does.
--James M. Barrie
Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all,
but most of us look the other way and lose it.
--Mark Twain
Happiness is like peeing your pants: Everyone can see it,
but only you can feel it's warmth.
--Unknown
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
By being happy, we sow enormous benefits upon the world.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
--Robert Frost
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are
fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal
we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off
and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so
wonderful, so worthwhile.
--Earl Nightingale (-1989)
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now.
The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
--Robert G. Ingersoll
What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money
--Henny Youngman
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed,
from domination of outside conditions.
--Robert Louis Stevenson
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done,
the zest of creating things new.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
--Sophocles
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