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What is happiness?
Happiness can be defined as the experience of joy, contentment, and a good feeling about yourself and your life. It is a positive emotion that makes you feel good, satisfied and calm, and gives a sense of well-being.
We are all seeking happiness. Almost every action and activity is aimed toward gaining happiness. We seek success and possessions, travel experiences, health and fitness, harmonious relationship and achieve goals, because we believe that these things will make us happy.
Below, you will find various quotes on happiness. Read them, think about them, and try to make them part of your life. Happiness quotes tend to awaken happiness and make you feel good.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
… Sydney J Harris
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find his way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
…Buddha
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
…Henry Ward Beecher
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
…Carl Jung
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
…Carrie jones
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures , and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
…Charlotte Bronte
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
…Thomas Merton
It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
…Dale Carnegie
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
…Denis Waitley
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
…Earl Nightingale
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that is happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
…Epictetus
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
…Franklin D. Roosevelt
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
…Frederick Keonig
Remind yourself daily, there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
…LAO TZU
“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
“When the mind becomes calm, happiness arises from within you.”
…Remez Sasson
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
…Andy Rooney
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
…Mary Lou Retton
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
…Aristotle
“Living in the present moment, not in the past and not in the future, and focusing on what you are doing at the present moment, brings calmness, happiness and joy.”
…Remez Sasson
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”
…Deepak Chopra
“Do not make your happiness depend on other people’s behavior, actions, state of mind or words. You are responsible for it, not other people.”
…Remez Sasson
“I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.”
…Diego Val
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
…Eleanor Roosevelt
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
…Freya Stark
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
…Helen Keller
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”
…Iris Murdoch
“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.”
…Lao Tzu
“It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.”
…Sir Richard Branson
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