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Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.
~ Drew Barrymore
Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.
~ Dale Carnegie
Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
~ Epicurus
Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
~ Khalil Gibran
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.
~ Yanni
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
~ Lance Armstrong
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
~ Bertrand Russell
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There is no greater misery than false joys.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
~ Paulo Coelho
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
~ Maxwell Maltz
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.
~ Hugh Laurie
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
~ Daniel Kahneman
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
~ Dante Alighieri
Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be.
~ Brian Tracy
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being
~ Bruce Lee
Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.
~ Aron Nimzowitsch