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Quotes About Happiness

If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
~ Madame de La Fayette
Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.
~ Andrew Weil
Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
~ Sydney Banks
How can we create a cultural legacy of happiness? Let other people matter.
~ Christopher Peterson
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.
~ Helen Keller
Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.
~ Lynn Austin
You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
~ Ray Bradbury
Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
~ Bill Bailey
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.
~ Susanna Tamaro
Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.
~ Dennis Weaver
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
~ Bernard Loiseau
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.
~ Maida Heatter
Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.
~ John Robbins
Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
~ Matthieu Ricard
To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
~ Epicurus
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
~ William Shakespeare
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
~ Markus Zusak
You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.
~ Douglas Malloch