Happiness Quotes

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore

Through, Often, Door

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Happy, Minds, Folks

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington

Happy, May, Find

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Others, Cause, Whenever

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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone

Happy, Both, Won

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Happy, Others, Compassion

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

Happy, Else, Fruit

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

Happy, Purpose, Lives

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

Happy, Yourself, Around

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True, Done, Joy

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Good, Health

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

Yourself, Catch, Pursue

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Ourselves, Depends

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

Attitude, Mental, Conditions

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Time, Future, True

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

Life, Pain, Loyalty

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

Silence, May, Learn

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

Power, Beyond, Worrying

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw

May, Done, Greatness

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Men, Liberty

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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

Past, Avoid, Meditation

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