Happiness Quotes
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If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.
Elizabeth Lesser -
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.
Stephen Covey
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It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
Shawn Achor -
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.
William Lyon Phelps -
The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
Heather Graham -
The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.
Rene Auberjonois -
Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
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The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-abandonment. 'If a man will let himself be lost for My sake,' Jesus said, 'he will find his true self.
Elisabeth Elliot -
Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda -
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Will Durant -
Keep ramping up your level of joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the joy, the faster the change. Your emanation of joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of joy!
Rhonda Byrne -
Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.
Chris Prentiss -
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
Dante Alighieri -
Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.
Satish Kumar -
If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and various other laws which govern our natures, this is, quite simply, the greatest happiness that can exist.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.
Nina Berberova -
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
Gautama Buddha -
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
Jane Austen
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Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.
Josh Holloway -
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
Norman Cousins -
Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
Josephine Baker