More Happiness Quotations And Sayings
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
– Dalai Lama
“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
“I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.”
– Diego Val
“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”
– Don Herold
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”
– Don Marquis
“Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.”
– Doug Larson
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”
– Doug Larson
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
– Douglas Jerrold
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
– E.L. Konigsburg
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
– Edith Wharton
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
– Epictetus
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
– Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State Of Mind, 1954
“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.”
– Ernest Dimnet
“One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.”
– Eugene O’Neill
“It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.”
– Frank Mckinney “Kin” Hubbard
“Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness.”
– Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
“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
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
– Freya Stark, The Journey‘S Echo
“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
“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“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
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
– George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898
“It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.”
– Georges Duhamel
“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
“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”
– Gretta Brooker Palmer
“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”
– H. Jackson Brown
“Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.”
– H.W. Byles
“Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight..”
– Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott, A Breath Of Heaven
“Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.”
– Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
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