HAPPINESS QUOTES (3)
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~Ayn Rand
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
~Lydia M. Child
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~Leo Buscaglia
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
~Bette Davis
Happiness is an inside job.
~William Arthur Ward
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
~Napoleon Hill
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
~Julia Roberts
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
~Bertolt Brecht
Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
~Bertrand Russell
To forget oneself is to be happy.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
~Richard Bach
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~Henry Ward Beecher
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
~Ernie Banks
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
~Aldous Huxley
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
~Jane Austen
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
~Baruch Spinoza
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
~Plutarch
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
~Bertrand Russell
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
~J. D. Salinger
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
~Lord Byron
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.
~Deepak Chopra
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
~Deepak Chopra
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
~Margaret Young
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~St. Augustine
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931
This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
~Charles M. Schulz
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