More Happiness Quotations And Sayings

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“You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.”
– Henepola Gunaratana (Bhante G)

“If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal – that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Happiness is a form of courage.”
– Holbrook Jackson

“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
– Hosea Ballou

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
– Immanuel Kant

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”
– Iris Murdoch

“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
– J.D. Salinger

“Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.”
– J.M. Reinoso

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
– Jacques Prévert

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”
– James Openheim

“Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.”
– Janet Lane

“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.”
– Jean De La Bruyere

“Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?”
– Jim Carrey

“Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.”
– Johann Pestalozzi

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

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”
– John Barrymore

“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.”
– John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
– John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
– Joseph Addison

“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
– Joseph Joubert

“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
– Joseph Roux

“What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise.”
– Kitty O’Neill Collins

“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”
– Lady Blessington

“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?”
– Leslie Caron

“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931

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

“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. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.”
– Margaret Young

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
– Mark Twain

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