Great and amazing 99 happiness quotes and sayings that can inspire you
A collection of 100 inspirational, wise Happiness quotes and Being Happy qutes with images
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“Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.” ― Ann Radcliffe
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“The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. ”― Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves. ”― Aristotle
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“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.” ― Ayn Rand
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“Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. ”― Baruch Spinoza
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“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.” ― Benjamin Franklin
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“All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!” ― Bob Newhart
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“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.” ― C. P. Snow
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“Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.” ― Christopher Morley
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“Man is the artificer of his own happiness. ”― Henry David Thoreau
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“If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.” ―Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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“All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.” — Horace Friess
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“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Allan K. Chalmers
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer
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“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” — E.L. Konigsburg
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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller
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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” — James Oppenheim
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“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”– Frederick Keonig
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“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” — Anthony de Mello
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
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“Health is not just the absence of a disease. It’s an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.” — Deepak Chopra
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“The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.” — Unknown
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“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck
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“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” — Anon
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“When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.” — H.H. the Dalai Lama
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“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.” — William Makepeace Thackeray
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“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”– Jacques Prevert
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“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.”– Doris Lessing
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“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
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“It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.”– Unknown
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“To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.”– Malcolm Forbes
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“Happiness is really a deep harmonious inner satisfaction and approval.” — Francis Wilshire
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“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” – – Joseph W. Krutch
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“A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.” — Talmud
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“A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.” — Wayne Dyer
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“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” — Helen Keller
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“Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”– Norman Vincent Peale
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“Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.” — Seneca
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“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” –Dennis Wholey
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“Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.” –Unknown
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“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.” — Joseph Addison
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“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” — Mildred Barthel
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“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition.” — Arthur Rubinstein
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“Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.” — Boris Sokoloff
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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.” — W Wolfe
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“Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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“The happiness of society is the end of government.” — John Adams
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“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” — Sigmund Freud
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“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein
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“We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Castaneda
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“I believe… that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.” — Thomas Jefferson
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“I care less about the gross national product and more about the gross national happiness.” — King of Bhutan
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“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.” – Unknown
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“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
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“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” – Colette
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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” — Harold Whitman
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“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping.” – Claudius Claudianus
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“To live happily is an inward power of the soul.” ― Aristotle
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“Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it. ”― Mary Baker Eddy
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“Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible.” ― Unknown
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“Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.” ― Unknown
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“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.” ― Lord Byron
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“Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” ― Anon
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“The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not. ”― Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.” ― Alice Meynell
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“The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ― Victor Hugo
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“Everything exists in limited quantity – especially happiness.” ― Picasso
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“The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ― Victor Hugo
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“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” ― Margaret Lee Runbeck
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“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.” ― John B. Sheerin
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“Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy! ” ― Anne Frank
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“Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.” ― Anon
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“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” ― Anon
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“Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.”― Scottish Proverb
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“Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.” ― Robert Anthony
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“I can only think of one thing greater than being happy and that is to help another to be happy, too.” ― Jim Thomson
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“They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.” ― Edith Wharton
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“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ”― Buddha
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“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ― Allan K. Chalmers
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“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. ”― Anne Frank
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ― Aristotle
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“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” ― St. Augustine
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“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.” ― Albert Camus
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“A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.” ― Fontenelle
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“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.” ― Sigmund Freud
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“No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.” ― Thomas Fuller
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“We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.” ― Samuel Johnson
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“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one—keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.” ― Mark Twain
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“Happiness is a warm puppy.” ― Charles Schulz
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“When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters. ”― Dalai Lama
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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ”― Ben Franklin
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“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation. Foolish preparation?” ― Jane Austen
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“Remember that happiness is a way of travel — not a destination. ― ”Roy M. Goodman
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“Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.” ― Cynthia Nelms
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“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. ”― William Makepeace Thackeray
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“Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.” ― Aristotle
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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. ”― Mark Twain