Happiness Quotes

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“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

― Dr. Seuss
tags: attributed-no-source, cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, misattributed-dr-
seuss, optimism,sadness, smile, smiling
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“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.

Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.

Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.

Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and
women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.

Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
tags: forgiveness, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, misattributed-to-mother-teresa, world
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
tags: essential, happiness, love
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
tags: attributed-no-source, happiness
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“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for
happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
tags: happiness
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“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.

Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20,
1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-
gandhi, money,morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live
if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus
tags: attributed-no-source, happiness, meaning-of-life
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“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach
for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
tags: happiness
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold
when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
tags: happiness, inspirational
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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon
tags: happiness, timelessness, wisdom
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“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing

can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel

that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,

and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past

and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself

that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,

not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
tags: happiness, inspirational, love, optimism, strength
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
tags: food, happiness
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“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love,
something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett
tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing
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“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”
― Audrey Hepburn
tags: happiness, life
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“Happiness is a warm puppy.”

― Charles M. Schulz
tags: animals, dogs, happiness, humor, puppies
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
tags: happiness, sadness
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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 it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
tags: attitude, contentment, happiness, inspirational, life
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“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

― Gabriel García Márquez
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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

― George Burns
tags: family, happiness, humor
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our
souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust
tags: gratitude, happiness
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“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
tags: chance, happiness, risk
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“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
tags: contrast, happiness, unhappiness
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“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson
tags: happiness, hope, inspirational, new-year
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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
tags: happiness, love
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“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”

― Mark Twain