Inspirational Sayings For A Life Changing Experience

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“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
– Aldous Huxley

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”
– David Burns

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”
– Euripides

“Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.”
– John M. Good

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
– Margaret Lee Runbeck

“A light heart lives long.”
– William Shakespeare

“Men spend their lives in anticipations—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.”
– Arnold Bennett

“Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.”
– Alice Meynell

“Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.”
– Epictetus

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.”
– Epictetus

“You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.”
– Robert F. Kennedy

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

“Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.”
– William Ellery Channing

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.”
– Henry W. Longfellow

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
– Douglas Jerrold

“Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.”
– J. Petit Senn

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
– Albert Camus

“Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.”
– Egyptian Proverb

“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.”
– Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.”
– Michael Johnson

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