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Quotes About Happiness

The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.
~ Horace Walpole
What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself
~ Gautama Buddha
He felt gladness roar through his soul.
~ Stephen King, Misery
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
~ Plato
Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
~ Blaise Pascal
Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?
~ Jane Austen
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
~ Benjamin Franklin
That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
~ Jane Austen
Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
~ Samuel Johnson
We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness
Men are so inevitably mad that not to be mad would be to give a mad twist to madness.
~ Blaise Pascal, Human Happiness
Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.
~ Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin.
~ Lord Byron
Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
~ Blaise Pascal
Happiness is the anticipation of future happines.
~ Anna Carey, Eve
Being naturally happy is the most impressive sign of freedom.
~ Eraldo Banovac
Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.
~ Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.
~ Julia Child
So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.
~ Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam