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Quotes about Happiness


Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Maurice Materlinck

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

George Santayana

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

C P Snow

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 will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Denis Anonymous

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

Denis Anonymous

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Denis Anonymous

The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.

C C Colton

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

C C Anonymous

Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him.

Sidney Madwed

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.

Sharon Salzberg

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Victor Hugo -Diogenes Laertius.

Diogenes Laertius

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.

Ursula K. Leguin

Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. . -John Templeton.

John Templeton

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. Anne Frank -John B. Sheerin.

John B. Sheerin

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.

Lord Byron

In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of thier satisfaction.

Paul Acquasanta

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.

Victor Hugo

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Anon -Allan K. Chalmers.

Allan K. Chalmers

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.

Allan K. Democritus

Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington -Unknown.

Unknown

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. -Unknown.

Unknown

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Merton

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty. -Woodrow Wilson:.

Woodrow Wilson:

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