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Happiness Quotes

Here you will find a collectiion of happiness quotes that are inspirational, containing many words of wisdom for you to reflect on. How do we create the emotion of happiness in our lives? The quotes below have many clues on how to create the feeling of happiness. We hope these quotes and sayings inspire you and that the words of wisdom in these sayings show you where happiness can be found.

“Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.”
Maurice Materlinck

"I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems."
Ray Kroc

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
George Bernard Shaw

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle

"We have the ability to determine our happiness hour by hour and day by day, through our thoughts and actions. We make that choice every morning when we get out of bed."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Happiness Is Not The Absence of Problems

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.”
Josh Billings

"The thing that goes the farthest towards making life worth while, that costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile."
W.D. Nesbit

"Don't worry, be happy."
Bobby McFerrin


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"Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see a bird that had the blues?
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." Dale Carnegie

"It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong." Author Unknown

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.” William Cowper

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Burton Hillis

"Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you." Sharon Stone

"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger." Japanese Proverb

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” Douglas Jerrold

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is." Maxim Gorky

To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." Earl Nightingale

"Sharing time and talents can result in discoveries that bring happiness beyond measure." Steve Brunkhorst

"Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile you'll . . .be cheerful because you smile." Kenneth Goode

"Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life." Laurence Sterne

"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually." Stephen Covey

“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Let us never know what old age is.
Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years." Ausonius

"Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance." Jim Rohn

"It doesn't get any better than this." Author Unknown

"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." Marcus A. Antoninus

"For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you." Helen Steiner Rice

"It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy." John D. Rockefeller

"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." Scottish Proverb

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them." Leo Tolstoy

"Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product." Henry Ford

"What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile." George Asaf

"If you love what you do, then it is no longer work. The money you earn is secondary when you love your work. Money can never buy happiness, or peace of mind." Catherine Pulsifer, from Love What You Do

"Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude."
Albert Einstein

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." Anne Frank

"Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be." Brian Tracy

"A mind employed is always happy. This is the true secert, the grand recipe for felicity." Thomas Jefferson

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Buddha

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