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Quotes About Happiness

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
~ Aldous Huxley
If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.
~ Peter Deunov
When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
~ Gautama Buddha
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Happiness isn't a destination; its a journey.
~ Austin Carlile
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
~ Mort Walker
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
~ English proverb
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
~ Carrie Snow
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
~ Walker Percy
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
~ John Mason Good
Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.
~ John Dickinson
Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.
~ Sri Chinmoy
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
~ Alfred Renyi
I love myself when I am laughing.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
~ Joanne Harris, Chocolat
We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.
~ Ajahn Sumedho
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.
~ Pope Gregory I
The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.
~ Erich Fromm
Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.
~ Konosuke Matsushita
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
~ Leo C. Rosten
The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.
~ Gabrielle Roy