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Quotes About Happiness

Practice the Three Breakthrough Actions: • Let go of your non-love feelings. • Hold in mind what you want. • Be positive and loving in spite of whatever happens.
~ Lawrence Crane
This world represents the promise of a unique happiness which we are not well-enough equipped to grasp.
~ Lawrence Durrell
There are two positions available to us – either crime which renders us happy, or the noose, which prevents us from being unhappy.
~ Lawrence Durrell
When you are in love you know that love is a beggar, shameless as a beggar; and the responses of merely human pity can console one where love is absent by a false travesty of an imagined happiness.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
~ Lily Tomlin
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
~ Sara Teasdale
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
~ Carl Jung
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?
~ Anne Frank
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
~ Seneca the Younger
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
~ Hermann Hesse
I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not. But like when I see a movie, for example, that I really like, that moves me or whatever, it's usually happy and sad at the same time.
~ Elliott Smith
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
~ Tammy Wynette
I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.
~ Sally Field
When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
~ Nick Hornby
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
~ Nancy Mitford
The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
~ Steve Martin
When you are happy, you enjoy music, when you are sad, you understand lyrics
~ Frank Ocean
We are more unhappy to see people ahead of us than happy to see people behind us.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I cried at first, and then, it was such a beautiful day, that I forgot to be unhappy.
~ Frances Noyes Hart
The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.
~ Billie Holiday
Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.
~ Rick Riordan