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Quotes About Happiness

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Everything we have and everything we enjoy, including our very life, is due to the kindness of others. In fact, every happiness there is in the world arises as a result of others' kindness.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.
~ Tyler Perry
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
~ Gautama Buddha
Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.
~ Abraham Maslow
The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.
~ Juan Gabriel
A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.
~ Bartholomew Roberts
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
~ John F. Kennedy
If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.
~ P. C. Cast
If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.
~ Justin Martyr
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Until further notice, celebrate everything.
~ Anonymous
Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.
~ Leon Brown
The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.
~ Freddie Mercury
Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)
~ Ernest Holmes
There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
~ Zendaya
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
~ Paul Simon
Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
~ Steve Carell