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Quotes About Happiness

So, often in the course Of life's few fleeting years, A single pleasure costs The soul a thousand tears.
~ Francis William Bourdillon
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
~ Emily Dickinson
To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
~ Ann Landers
I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.
~ DH Lawrence
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
~ Plutarch
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Life is a precious gift. Don't waste it being unhappy, dissatisfied, or anything else you can be.
~ Unknown
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
~ Annette Funicello
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
~ Robert A Heinlein
We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.
~ Drew Barrymore
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
~ Harvey Mackay
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.
~ Nadine Stair
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise.
~ William Blake
One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.
~ Dalai Lama
Those who dont love themselves as they are rarely love life either.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
~ Lillian Gish
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
~ Epicurus
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
~ Henry Miller
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
~ Sydney Smith
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
~ Kalidasa
Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
~ Marcia Wieder
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day. May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
~ Unknown
Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like.
~ Unknown