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Quotes About Happiness

Be happy without picking flaws.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It's lovely to see people so happy.
~ Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.
~ Lana Del Rey
How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
~ Dan Savage
Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom
~ Gustave Flaubert, November
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
~ Sophocles
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.
~ Gautama Buddha
one would suffer a great deal to be happy.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Happiness does not require an expanding economy
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.
~ Victor Hugo
My vision is to inspire others to find purpose and happiness.
~ Tiffany Alvord
How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.
~ Dean Hamer
Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
~ James Pierrepont Greaves
I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.
~ Ishmael Beah
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.
~ Wilferd Peterson
O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.
~ Sri Chinmoy
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
~ Leo Tolstoy