You And The World’s Happiness

We have to accept that we can’t always be happy. There will always be ups and downs in life. Sometimes, we are happy, sometimes we are not. It’s okay. When you feel unhappy, be patient. The unhappiness will pass, and you will be happy again.

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that make you sad. Do not cling on to things that make you unhappy. If you do that, you are choosing to be unhappy. Expect nothing, and appreciate what you have. Happiness cannot be far from a grateful heart and peaceful mind.

If you want to be happy, take a little time to do whatever makes you happy. Only you know what makes you happiest. Being happy is a very personal thing and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. - Dale Carnegie

The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world. - Hugh Black

Those feel-good vibes that flow from your being happy can be good for your health. Moreover, your happiness will likely rub off on others, making them happy too. Happiness is like a virus – it can be passed on. - Gloria Chandy

If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, and those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their free acts. - Marcus Aurelius

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Happiness Is A Choice

We can choose to be happy by being around people who are cheerful, and people who make us happy. We can choose not to let the unpleasantness in our lives get us down, and by distancing ourselves from people who drain our energy with their negativity.

We should, so live that our happiness depends as little as possible on external things. If you want to be cheerful and happy, act that way and you will soon find yourself becoming that way. Sometimes, a change in mindset and attitude makes a lot of difference.

Develop an attitude of gratitude. Count your blessings, not your woes, and you find that there is a lot in your life to be happy for.

Impatience poisons all our joys and prevents us from recognizing happiness. We are made impatient by the impression that happiness is always a little further on. We want to rush through everything to achieve it. But happiness, as a philosopher once wrote, is like a ball chased by a child – when you catch up with it, you give it a kick. - Unknown

When we chased after superficial, materialistic things, we might be happy, but the happiness is brief. Once we are tire of the things we had, we begin to crave for more. When we cannot have more, we are miserable. The craving is insatiable. If we do not recognise that and keep craving, and chasing after materialistic things, we are going to be forever unhappy. - Unknown

It’s good to be just plain happy; it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. - Henry Miller

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Thoughts On Happiness

Being happy is a very personal thing. Only you know what makes you happy. Decide that you want to be happy and do what makes you happy. With the right attitude, and a grateful heart, learn to appreciate what you have, to be contended with what you have. Therein lies your happiness.

If you want to be happy, you must not be too concerned with others. To be happy you must be your own sunshine. Be so happy that when others look at you they become happy too!

Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have the time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come [sic]. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. - Charles Caleb Colton

As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today. - Aminu Kano

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date. - Dale Carnegie

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Thoughts On Happiness

Our happiness lies with our thoughts, with the enjoyment we get out of the simple pleasures, and the little moments in our lives. Nothing, and nobody can bring us happiness but ourselves. We, alone, are responsible for our well-being, our happiness.

Too often, our unhappiness is a result of our greed, and desires, and our ignorance of where happiness can be found. We are always wanting, desiring more. When we do not get what we want, what we desire, we are unhappy. The greed, the desiring never ends. Therefore, we can never be happy.

We have to understand that our happiness does not lie in materialistic things. Our happiness does not come from getting everything we want. It comes from sharing what we have with the people who matter.

Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. - Arthur Lynch

No man can reach the state of perfect happiness unless he brings his coveting heart and mind under complete or proper control. So long as he seeks his happiness in the satisfaction of his desires for material gains, he will never find it. In the first place, he cannot obtain everything he wishes for. - K. Sri Dhammananda

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

So, if you want to happy, just choose to be happy.

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Why People Are Not Happy

Our happiness lies with our thoughts, with the enjoyment we get out of the simple pleasures, and the little moments in our lives. Nothing, and nobody can bring us happiness but ourselves. We are responsible for our well-being, our happiness. There is a Chinese Saying that says – Knowing contentment, you will always be happy.

Too often, our unhappiness is a result of our greed, and desires, and our ignorance of where happiness can be found. We are always wanting, desiring more. When we do not get what we want, what we desire, we are unhappy. The greed, the desiring never ends. Therefore, we can never be happy. Happiness do not lie in the accumulation of materialistic things. The things that make us happy are also the things that can make us unhappy and miserable even.

True happiness lies in understanding, acceptance and letting go. We have to understand that our happiness do not lie in the materialistic things. Real happiness does not come from getting everything you want. It comes from sharing what you have with the people who matter. It comes from peace of mind.

We have to accept that we can’t always be happy. There will always be ups and downs in life. Sometimes, we are happy, sometimes we are not. It’s okay. Be patient, for the unhappiness will pass, and you will be happy again.

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that make you sad. Do not cling on to things that make you unhappy. Expect nothing, and appreciate what you have. Happiness cannot be far from a grateful heart and peaceful mind.

Here are some reasons people think why we are not happy.

Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. - Bernard de Fontenelle

If we want to remain happy in spite of the ups and downs of life we have to be real people, honest with and fair to ourselves. - Unknown

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

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. - Marcel Pagnol

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus

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

Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business and do what you need to do to make you happy. - Leon Brown

Happiness - Quotes

True happiness is not found in materialistic things. It comes from the love and laughter found with each other. - Unknown

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. - George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the of of life is happiness. - George Orwell

Happiness - Quotes

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. - Ralph Harslon

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. - Marcel Pagnol

One day, you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that happiness was never in the hands of other people. - Bianca Sparacino

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. - Earl Nightingale

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go lime the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. - The Buddha

The secret to being happy is keeping a sense of humour, making the most of everyday, and taking time to enjoy the little things. - Unknown

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. - Doinsky

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. - John Lubbock

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. - Gretta Brooker Palmer

Learn to be happy with what yo have while you pursue all that you want. - Jim Rohn

Happiness consists in moderate desires, wants easily satisfied. - James Platt

Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. - C. S. Lewis

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There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for. - Albert Camus

To be happy, even to conceive happiness, you must be reasonable or ... you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passions and learned your place in the world. - George Santayana

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. - Benjamin Franklin

A somewhat depressing lesson that we learn from life is that there is no guaranteed sure-fire formula for happiness. - Michael W. Eysenck

We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets. - Ilona Andrews

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Gerard Way

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now. - Unknown

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! - Joyce Meyer

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness can never come to those who can’t appreciate what they already have. - Unknown

Happiness consists in giving and in serving others. - Henry Drummond

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Happiness - Quotes

What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one. - Voltaire

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle! - Henry Ward Beecher

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections. - Unknown

Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed. - Unknown

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open. - Rose Lane

At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul. - Hugh Black

Happiness begins with the decision to no longer feel sad. - Steven Aitchison

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. - Aesop

A man may be happy anywhere that knows how to be contented. - Wellins Calcott

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. - Werner Erhard

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Happiness - Quotes

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. - Norman Vincent Peale

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity. - Samuel Richardson

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. - August Strindberg

Happiness is natural, happiness is a birthright, happiness is free, happiness is a choice, happiness is within, and happiness is being. - Robert Holden

If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. - Robert Brault

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. - Henry Van Dyke

Happiness does not depend upon surroundings, but upon disposition. - Charles Edward Jerningham

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. - Unknown

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable. - John Lennon

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. - Lady Blessington

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We all seek happiness so eagerly, that in the pursuit we often lose that joyous sense of existence, and those quiet daily pleasures, the value of which our pride alone prevents us from acknowledging. - Arthur Helps

Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now. - Unknown

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. - Maxim Gorky

Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. - George Benard Shaw

Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. - Eckhart Tolle

But, O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! - William Shakespeare

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. - Jacques Prévert

If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven’t danced in the rain. - Unknown

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances. - John Lubbock

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown

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Happiness - Quotes

I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it. - Karl Hilty

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere. - Jane Austen

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. - Charles Dickens

If you would have your home and your surroundings happy, be happy. You can transform everything around you if you will transform yourself. - James Allen

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call ‘happiness’, if we be but able to entertain them. - H. P. Lovecraft

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs. - Charles Baudelaire

Happiness is like your shadow. Run after it and you will never catch it, but keep your face to the sun and it will follow you. - Croft M. Pentz

It is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible. - Jane Austen

Make cheer from your own heart, for the sun rises and sets according to your perspective on the universe. - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

Maybe that was the secret of happiness – not expecting any one thing to last forever. - Barbara O’Neal

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. - Austin O’Malley

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. - Aristotle

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. - Thomas Jefferson

He that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

Happiness is not so much in the amount of treasure we possess as in being content with what we have. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

If you want to be happy, be. - Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to. - Rita Mae Brown

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. - William James

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand

If you wish to be happy, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change. - Christopher Paolini

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. - Gerge Santayana

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are. - Ariana Grande

Happiness is the soul in peace. - Edward Counsel

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Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

My friends’ happiness forms part of my own. - Pedro Alexis Tabensky

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Acceptance is the key to everything. - Michael J. Fox

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists – merely in the imagination. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. - Andre Gide

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere. - Daniel Gilbert

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown

Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Past happiness augments present wretchedness. - Publilius Syrus

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. - Leo Tolstoy

That is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their un-escapable social destiny. - Aldous Huxley

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The effects of being charitable to others leads to a measurable increase in happiness. - Myriam Mongrain

The happiest people are the people with the best attitudes, not the best lives. - Bob Lonsberry

The happiness of life, like the light of day, consists not in one brilliant flash, but in a series of mild, serene rays. - Eliza Cook

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. - Colley Cibber

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it. - Laurel K Hamilton

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. - Marcel Pagnol

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. - George Washington

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - George Sand

To be happy you must be your own sunshine. - Charles Edward Jerningham

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have. - Christopher Paolini

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You can be happy even if you had a painful past, and even if the future doesn’t go as planned. Happiness is available right now, if you choose to stop clinging to anger, regret, and fear and appreciate what’s right in front of you. - Lori Deschene

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington

Happiness. Peace of mind. Satisfaction. But we're only kidding ourselves. Striving, consuming, and accumulating will never bring happiness. What they bring is anxiety, worry, unhappiness, and – in the long run – ineffectiveness. - Bruce Bickel & Stan Jantz

Happiness was different in childhood. It was so much then a matter simply of accumulation, of taking things – new experiences, new emotions – and applying them like so many polished tiles to what would someday be the marvellously finished pavilion of the self. - John Banville

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. - Josef Pieper

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. - Ralph Marston

Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. - Arthur Lynch

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence. - Washington Irving

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. - Thich Nhat Hanh

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. - Robert A. Heinlein

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. - Heraclitus

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick. - Sophie Swetchine

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. - Andre Maurois

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. - Mary Stuart

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. - Anne Frank

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We are most happy when least aware of happiness. - Ivan Panin

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment. - Immanuel Kant

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever. - Jose Saramago

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness. - Robert Brault

What is the worth of anything, but for the happiness 'twill bring? - Richard Owen Cambridge

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

When happiness was a matter of pleasure, and pleasure a matter of taste, one could be happy simply by rolling in filth. - Darrin M. McMahon

Who can tell where happiness may come, or where, though an expected guest, it may never show its face? - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure. - Ezra Taft Benson

You have never seen ugliness in a happy face. - William John Locke

You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything. - Laurel K. Hamilton

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. - Lavetta Sue Wegman

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If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, and those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. - Thich Nhat Hanh

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. - Seneca

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. - Earl Nightingale

Pain and illness, the deaths of that one love, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance. - Jean Liedloff

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you. - Ralph Marston

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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You never know which footstep will bring a good twist in life. So keep on walking. Happiness comes when it is most unexpected. That’s life! - Unknown

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent. - Stephanie Dowrick

Thousands of happiness can’t remove one pain in heart. But one pain can remove thousands of happiness in heart. That’s life. - Unknown

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. - Ramana Maharshi

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is. - Mandy Hale

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. - Robert Brault

The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day. - Unknown

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. - Jodi Picoult

When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment. - Oscar Wilde

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Be happy, and a reason will come along. - Robert Brault

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. - Buddha

Being happy never goes out of style. - Lilly Pulitzer

More on Happiness Here , and The book The Pursuit of Happiness