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Quotes About Happiness

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.
~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer
When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
~ Marcel Pagnol
If you wish to be happy, Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
~ Robert Anthony
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
~ Dale Carnegie
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.
~ Mark Strand, Selected Poems
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.
~ Nenia Campbell, Endgame
Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.
~ Lana Del Rey
I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!
~ Sharon Swan
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
~ André Gide, The Immoralist
I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.
~ Heather Anastasiu, Glitch
There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Be Sure To Notice When You're Happy
~ Brenda Farrar-ejemai
She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.
~ Victoria Aveyard, Queen Song
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
~ Augustine Birrell
Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.
~ Jed McKenna
The decision is mine, and I choose happiness
~ Malori Howell
Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Lord, make me nowAs happy as the field.With flowers enriched...
~ Eileen A. Soper
I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
~ Joanne Harris