Top 100 Happiness Quotes

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.1

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not ...2

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

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Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

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Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

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Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

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Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

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Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and ...10

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest ...12

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the ...14

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

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Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this ...17

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

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I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

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It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

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There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.

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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

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Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

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Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

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I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

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When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

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If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

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All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

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How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

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Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

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All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

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At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, 'I was always happy.' Hopefully, we will be able to say, 'I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.'

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Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

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Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.

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Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.

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To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

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A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought.

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What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.

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There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

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If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

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Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections

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If I can bring joy into the world, then I'll be successful.

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When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

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Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

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Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

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Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.

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Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

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It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

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But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

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I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.

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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

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All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

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There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true happiness outside of work. From friends, family, and YouTube videos of old people falling down.

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Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

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I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

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How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

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The "18/40/60" rule to happiness: At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them. By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think. By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.

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Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

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There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

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Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

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Happiness is the ultimate goal...The mistake we make is not going for happiness first. If we did, everything else would follow.

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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

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The healthiest response to life is joy.

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Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

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So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.

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Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

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To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

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It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

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If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

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The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

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Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

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Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.

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Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

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In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

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What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

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I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

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Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.

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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

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Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

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When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

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If you knew everything was really was all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right.

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I'm going to be happy. I'm going to skip. I'm going to be glad. I'm going to be easy. I'm going to count my blessings. I'm going to look for reasons to feel good. I'm going to dig up positive things from the past. I'm going to look for positive things where I stand. I'm going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It's natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person.

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