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Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.
~ Dorothy Parker
To be afraid of our next life because we don't feel we've done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.
~ Frederick Lenz
You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.
~ Miguel Indurain
I want to live a full life - period.
~ Regina King
What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.
~ Teresa of Avila
I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
~ William John Locke
Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!
~ Charlotte Bronte
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.
~ Dalai Lama
Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.
~ Dale Carnegie
When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
~ Dave Chappelle
We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.
~ David Morrissey
One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.
~ Dustin Moskovitz
I don't have to have the biggest house or the biggest car or the longest mink, but quality of life is really glamorous.
~ Eartha Kitt
The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
~ Euripides
It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is a waste without humor -- living is all about happiness and laughter.
~ Fauja Singh
I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.
~ Joshua Waitzkin
Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.
~ Katherine Waterston
And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.
~ Marcella Hazan
I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.
~ Mariska Hargitay
Not romance but companionship makes the happiness of daily life.
~ Mason Cooley