Quotes on Happiness
Here are some great quotes on happiness
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful". Albert Schweitzer
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony" Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product" Eleanor Roosevelt
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness" Bertrand Russell
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up" Mark Twain
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion" Dalai Lama
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it" George Bernard Shaw
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too" Mark Twain
"The future depends on what we do in the present" Mahatma Gandhi
"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy" William Shakespeare
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same" Anne Frank
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time" Edith Wharton
"The purpose of life is to become happy, The purpose of life is to challenge and triumph over the darkness of misery" Daisaku Ikeda
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination" Immanuel Kant
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy" Guilaume Apollinaire
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy" Robert Anthony
"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do" Freya Stark
"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven" John Milton
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet" James Openheim
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness" Sophocles
"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
"A man's as miserable as he thinks he is" Seneca
"There is no happiness without hardship, so often we strive to reach the destination of happiness without walking the road of struggles and challenges which leads us there"
Daisaku Ikeda
"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest" Henry David Thoreau
Helen Keller
Norm Papernick
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things" Epictetus
"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness , otherwise how would you know when you're happy?" Leslie Caron
"The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy" Dalai Lama
"The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it" Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy, it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves"
Helen Keller
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