Quotes About Happiness

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These awesome quotes about happiness show just how simple happiness is to attain, if we learn to make it a personal habit in our lives. A lot of this website is about being successful and living your dreams, and let's face it, the main reason we want that most of the time is because we want to be happy. But, you can be happy even as you pursue your dreams and go on that success journey.

Quotes About Happiness

• "Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Norman MacEwan

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

• "Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness." Harold Kushner

• "Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it." William Feather

• "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" Albert Camus

• "The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." Johann Wolfang von Goethe

• "Happiness is a habit - cultivate it." Elbert Hubbard

• "Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom." Benjamin Franklin

• “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”Marcel Pagnol

• "It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness." Thomas Jefferson
  

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• "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." Benjamin Disraeli

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

• "If you want to be happy, be." Leo Tolstoy

• "Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it." François VI de la Rochefoucault

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." Abraham Lincoln

• "I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at." Robert Brault

• “This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.” Meister Eckhart

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

• “Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one’s self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.” William Ogden

• “The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now.”  Robert G. Ingersoll

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• "There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved." George Sand

• “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”Buddha

• “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us." Ashley Montagu

• "Happiness is an occasional brief glance into how simple it all can be." Robert Brault

• "Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action." William James

• "Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more." H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

• “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

• "Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all." Ovid

• "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

• "Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude." Dale Carnegie

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