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Happiness Quotes

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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

- Aristotle

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You don't have the power to make life "fair,"

but you do have the power to make life joyful.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,

but sometimes your smile

can be the source of your joy.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Laugh when you can,

apologize when you should,

and let go of what you can't change.

Life's too short to be anything... but happy.

- Anonymous

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,

and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- The Buddha

Happiness walks on busy feet.

- Kitte Turmell

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is a choice.

- Anonymous

We all live with the objective of being happy;

our lives are all different and yet the same.

- Anne Frank

The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering

is often service to others.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,

or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.

It is what you think about.

- Dale Carnegie

The human race has one really effective weapon,

and that is laughter.

- Mark Twain

If you want to be happy, be.

- Leo Tolstoy

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.

May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.

May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.

And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.

- Irish Blessing

When one door closes, another opens.

But often we look so long, so regretfully,

upon the closed door,

that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.

- Helen Keller

If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -

never from demanding that others live simply -

or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Simple living is the way to happy living.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.

Gratitude is like the prayer, while

Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.

Celebration is its own road to happiness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it

and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

- Henry David Thoreau

If you have health, you probably will be happy,

and if you have health and happiness,

you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

- Elbert Hubbard

Where fear is, happiness is not.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,

it is governed by our mental attitude.

- Dale Carnegie

Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.

Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.

Following the rainbow is happiness,

not getting to the end of it.

- Werner Erhard

My happiness depends on me.

- A Course in Miracles

The key to happiness is not to have what you want

but to want what you have.

- Anonymous

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy

is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,

alone with the heavens, nature and God.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

- Anne Frank

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,

is always just beyond your grasp,

but which, if you will sit down quietly,

may alight upon you.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

- Henry Drummond

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

- Anonymous

The greater part of our happiness or misery

depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

Know that happiness is created by the act

of expressing gratitude for all of life.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are

something to do,

something to love,

and something to hope for.

- Joseph Addison

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key to success, and to happiness,

is being fully engaged in life -

leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -

setting your own fine and honorable example.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,

if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,

so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.

If, in short, I am an optimist,

my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

- Helen Keller

...

Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind

to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist

for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone

and gratitude for everything.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gratitude is crucial to your happiness

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Gain happiness by living in the present -

without regret for the past or fear of the future.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is when the other person's happiness

is more important than your own.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The really great secret - Happiness is free.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Many persons have a wrong idea of

what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self-gratification

but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

- Helen Keller

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

- Werner Erhard

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.

- A Course In Miracles

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying

about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.

- George Sand

Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.

Forgiving is your gift to yourself -

a great gift - the gift of happiness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is not the absence of problems,

but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.

It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

- Henry Ford

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,

than on outward circumstances.

- Benjamin Franklin

Create happiness for others.

- Dale Carnegie

Consistent happiness is found through

living in a state of constant gratitude.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My greatest service to others is living happily,

and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."

Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.

Demanding that life meet our expectations

is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.

Life is a game with no rules.

Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.

Our only path to happiness lies in being open

to receiving whatever life throws at us -

with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your success and happiness lies in you.

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you

shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

- Helen Keller

If you don't take full responsibility

for your own happiness,

who do you suppose will?

Your happiness is a one person job -

it begins and ends with you.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some days are simply meant for playing.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Happiness is a choice.

You grieve, you stomp your feet,

you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

- Lucy Lawless

Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Darkness is not a force -

it is merely the absence of light.

Observe that when a light

is brought to a dark place,

the darkness disappears.

Sadness is similar -

when joy is brought to suffering,

the sadness disappears.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your greatest gift to others is to be happy

and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -

broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,

and lofty things from low.

- Helen Keller

Success is getting what you want;

happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

You can not find happiness by chasing after it.

Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,

and from being who you truly are.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

- Helen Keller

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,

there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.

The more of it one has the more one wants.

- Benjamin Franklin

Know that joy is a choice, but it isn't an easy choice.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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May the world be kind to you,

and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie