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Quotes About Happiness

The end of pain we take as happiness.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
~ Nicolas Boileau
Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.
~ Zig Ziglar
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
~ Diana, Princess of Wales
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
~ Eleonora Duse
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
~ Alphonse Karr
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
~ John Locke
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
~ Joseph Roux
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
~ Georges Duhamel
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
He who is contented is rich.
~ Lao-Tzu
Long only for what you have.
~ Andre Gide
We are never content with our lot.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
~ Honore de Balzac
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
~ Zoë Akins
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
~ Plautus
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
~ Vauvenargues
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Do you prefer that you be right or happy?
~ Norman Cousins
A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
~ William Shakespeare