Happiness Quotes

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These are some of my favourite happiness quotes and I find these simple truths so revealing. Happiness is really a simple thing, but all too often in wanting it so much we complicate it, and sadly, we miss it. May you not miss your happiness today and ever more.

Happiness Quotes

• "Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself." Alice Walker

• "It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed." Frank McKinney  Hubbard

• “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.” Peyton Conway March

• "The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so." William Ralph Inge

• “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.”Thich Nhat Hanh

• "Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled." Benjamin Spock

• "Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude." Joseph Wood Krutch

• “Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -because we will always want to have something else or something more," David Steindl-Rast

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• “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.” W. Beran Wolfe

• "To describe happiness is to diminish it." Stendhal

• “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.” Margaret Bonanno

• "Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!" Dita Von Teese

• “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust

• “Many people 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

• “The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.” Martha Washington

• “All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.”  Horace Friess

• “The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• “Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.” — Mark Twain

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• “Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.” Alan Cohen

• “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” Helen Keller

• "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." Jim Rohn

• "Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind." Alice Meynell

• "Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." Douglas Jerrold

• “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.” Marcus Aurelius

• “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 infinitesimal of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• “People who are not happy with themselves cannot possibly be happy with you.” Unknown

• “I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”Drew Barrymore

• "No man is happy who does not think himself so."
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