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Quotes About Happiness

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
~ Seneca
Take the life...lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
~ Henrik Ibsen
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
~ Unknown
Needing is a state of the ego that tries to convince us that we are empty and we need something to feel love, success and happiness. Our true self requires nothing to feel complete. From a state of being complete we create more to complete us.
~ Unknown
When you can't seem to find happiness or peace in either direction you turn, maybe its time for self evaluation.
~ Unknown
Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
~ Barbara Sher
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of ones identity as being of worth and dignity.
~ Rollo May
Success, happiness, peace of mind and fulfillment, the most priceless of human treasures are available to all among us, without exception, who make things happen. Who make good things happen in the world around them.
~ Unknown
We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life
~ Charlotte Joko Beck
Happiness does not come from making money. It comes from spending it. Most people are doing otherwise.
~ Unknown
Optimists believe that their own actions result in positive things happening, that they are responsible for their own happiness, and that they can expect more good things to happen in the future. It deals with pain and hardship better than their pessimistic counterparts.
~ Unknown
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
~ Ayn Rand
Self-love is key, to having someone else love you.
~ Unknown
I'm happy to be me...I love my life...And I loved to be myself.
~ Unknown
They say self love is the best love.
~ Unknown
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
~ Andre Maurois
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.
~ Cat Stevens
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
~ Unknown
The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
~ Denis Waitley
Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery
~ Matthew Arnold
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
~ Julia Roberts
Happiness and self love are moment to moment choices. There will inevitably be times when we don't make them. The beautiful thing is that every moment is a new opportunity to choose again. Every moment is a chance to apply what we've learned. We need to have the courage to do what we can and be happy with that.
~ Unknown
He who sacrifices his heart, in silence, for the happiness of others, is indeed the strongest man.
~ Unknown