Happiness Quotes 

A paraphrase of Section 10 of the Sutra of 42 Sections, a Chinese text.
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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

ausonius

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happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

Tags: present, design, future, postpone, you, something, not

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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

maya angelou

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happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

— Mahatma Gandhi, as quoted in Humor, Play, & Laughter: Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids (1998) by Joseph A. Michelli, p. 88.

Tags: when, what, you, think, harmony, do, say

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To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

sydney smith

— Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), "Of Friendship".

Tags: memoir, Holland, lady, love, loved, greatest, existence

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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Tags: Yourself, catch, Have, you, pursue, right, people, gives, constitution

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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

daniel boone

— American pioneer and explorer

Tags: wife, horse, gun, good, need, all

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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind.

Buddha

Tags: mind, own, control, discipline, first, all, Peace, family, true

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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

— Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist (4 BC - 65 AD)

Tags: future, upon, dependence, anxious, without, present, enjoy, true

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You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

Elizabeth Gilbert

— Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Tags: words, Angry, back, biting, years, earned, tongues, their, carries

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I shall take the heart, for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

l. frank baum

— L. Frank Baum, lines for the Tinman in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).

Tags: heart, brains, one, happy, best, thing, world, make, not

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

oscar wilde

Tags: go, Whenever, Others, wherever, cause, some

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A disciplined mind brings happiness.

Buddha

— The Dhammapada, verse 35

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If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.

Buddha

— The Dhammapada, Chapter 1

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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Kanye West

— American rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur

Tags: standard, all, fits, size, one, there's, me, ideas, people's

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happiness is a warm puppy.

charles m. schulz

— American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts (1922 - 2000)

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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

jonathan safran foer

— American novelist

Tags: with, one, fill, be, dog, watching, why

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The highest happiness on earth is marriage.

William Lyon Phelps

— Marriage

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Twenty-five years of happiness known. A very long time, yet so quickly it's flown! It's nice to remember the good times we've had, and leave in the past any things that were bad.

Norman Wesley Brooks

— "From Your Loving Husband on Our Silver Anniversary" (1967)

Tags: bad, things, any, past, leave, had, we've, times, good

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A smile is happiness you will find right under your nose.

Tom Wilson

— American cartoonist (1931 - 2011)

Tags: nose, Your, under, right, find, will, you, Smile

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Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

Bram Stoker

— from Dracula

Tags: bring, something, leave, safely, go, freely, come, house, welcome

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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

honoré de balzac

— Letters of Two Brides, Part I, chapter XXXI (1841-1842).

Tags: letters, Memories, fond, guise, past, reflected, but, future, up

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

— The Wise.

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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

— Mere Christianity (1999, p. 50)

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Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

Sakyong mipham

— Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life

Tags: karma, moves, two, directions, act, virtuously, seed, plant, result

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

henri Matisse

Tags: derive, oneself, good, day, work, illuminating, fog, Surrounds, us

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It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

j. m. barrie

— Peter Pan (1911), also known as Peter and Wendy.

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Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Beyoncé

— American singer-songwriter

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