Collection of the best 88 happiness quotes that can brighten your day and make you feel better
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The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.- Chinese Proverb
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.- Oprah Winfrey
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters. -Audrey Hepburn
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.- E.E. Cummings
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The only person you are destined to become is the person YOU DECIDE to be.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.- Napoleon Hill
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The only thing to fear is, fear itself.- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was – or wasn't. – D.H. Mondfleur
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw
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The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.- James Allen
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping. – Claudius Claudianus
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.- William Arthur Ward
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The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now.- Robert Ingersoll
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The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.- Anonymous
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.- Joseph Campbell
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.–Dalai Lama
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. – C. P. Snow
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The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the
real joy of living. – Walter Rauschbusch
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The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.–Unknown
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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
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The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. – Steve Furtick
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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.- Celia Green
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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.- Charles Swindoll
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The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. –Claude Monet
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the consequence.- Bishop Joseph
Butler
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. – Eric Hoffer
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The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. – Robert Brault
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. – Lin Yutang
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The secret of happiness is curiosity.- Norman Douglas
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what
others own.- Orison Swett Marden
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.–James M. Barrie
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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. – V.S. Pritchett
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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. – Al Batt
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The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. – Robert Brault
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The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.- Marya Mannes
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The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.–Victor Hugo
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The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a cause greater than yourself.–Unknown
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The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. – Robert G. Ingersoll
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The tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside us while we live.- Native American
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life and elevating them to an art.- William Morris
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The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.–Francoise de Motteville
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.–Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.-
Smiley Blanton
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The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.–Felix Adler
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.- Chodrun
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.–Arthur Schopenhauer
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The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.- Marcel Proust
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The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.- Jim Rohn
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The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.- Dolly Parton
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The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.- Paris Hilton
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The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.–Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it. – Johnette Napolitano
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. – Seneca the Younger
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one—keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.–Mark Twain
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. – Salvador Dali
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There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere and leaving it behind them when they go.- Faber
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There are three ingredients to the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.- Christopher Morley
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.- Denis Waitley
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There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.- Logan
Pearsall Smith
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.- Freya Stark
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There comes For ever something between us and what We deem our happiness.–Lord Byron
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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by
giving them to someone else.-Peyton Conway March
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There is always something for which to be thankful.- Charles Dickens
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There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest. –Peace Pilgrim
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it
is positive or negative.- W. Clement Stone
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.- Lady Blessington
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There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.–Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.- Henry Ford
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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.-Proverb
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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.- Ben Williams
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.- Mark Twain
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There is no waiting for happiness. It’s now or never. I choose NOW. –Zia Holte
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There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. –Thich Nhat Hanh
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There is no wealth but life.- John Ruskin
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There is nothing more attractive than a happy person.- Author Unknown
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.- Mohandas Gandhi
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There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.- Paul Rudnick
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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to
question them.–Anthony de Mello
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.–George Sand
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. – Paulo Coelho
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.–Epictetus
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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.–Edith Wharton
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Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy! –Anne Frank
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This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your
head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. – Charlie Brown
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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors. – Chuck Sigars
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This is the true joy of life–the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the
scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances. — G. Bernard Shaw
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This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else. –Meister Eckhart
