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Quotes about Happiness


Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Happiness is not always measured in smiles.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Happiness is acceptance.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Walters

Happiness is an inside job.

William Arthur Ward

Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.

Greg Webster

Happiness is being married to your best friend.

Barbara Weeks

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

Dale Carnegie

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

C C Colton

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather

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 comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.

Nikolaus Lenus

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