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“Most people have no idea how unhappy they are because they don't know what happiness is. When they get a little break from their total pain, they feel a little better and they call it happiness.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.”

Ifs Knows Might Happiness Life Is Buddhism Asking Asking Why

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Stop being jealous, I mean, to be jealous is to suggest that God doesn't know what she is doing. This is ridiculous! She does everything perfectly”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness is not dependent on experience. What you experience shouldn't make you happy or unhappy when you know how to be happy.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“How can you possibly be happy if you think you're a person? Because we all know, just by definition, that people are definitely not happy because they take everything too seriously. They take themselves seriously.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Happiness Buddhism Definitions Not Happy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Happiness Powerful Masters Buddhism Letting Go Waste Noble Horrible Wealthy Wasting Time Truthful Demonic Zen Master

Author:Frederick Lenz

“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”

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Author:Mary Anne Radmacher

“Happy is the person who not only sings, but feels God's eye is on the sparrow, and knows He watches over me. To be simply ensconced in God is true joy.”

Knows Feels Persons God Eye Happiness Joy Watches Sparrows True Joy

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.”

“To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.”

Knows Want Firsts Enough Happiness Share Commodity True Happiness

Author:Robert Holden

“I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.”

Knows Trying Happiness Joy Audience Tears Drama Laughter

Author:Judy Garland

“Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.”

Knows Dream Age Happiness Names Known Youth

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.”

Knows Happiness Felt Theory Weight Heavy This Life Permanent Calamity

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

“The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.”

“We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.”

Knows Happiness Values Forever Failing Cherish Short Lived

Author:Jose Saramago

“You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.”

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Book:Happiness

Source: Happiness

“The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.”

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Author:Agatha Christie

“When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.”

Knows Men Might Happiness Success Deficiency

Author:Mark Steyn

“Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.”

Knows Hands Happiness Secret Wise Cosmetics Wise Women

Author:Coco Chanel

“God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.”

Thinking Knows Men Happiness Cutting Fit Holy Please Creatures Delight Thanks Miserable God Love True God Holy Man

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations

“I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.”

Ifs Knows Want Wanted Happiness Empty Reviews

Author:Rita Hayworth

“We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.”

Ifs Knows Mind Happiness Time Poor Clear Conditions Depends Happy Unhappy Peaceful Peace Of Mind Always Be Happy Peaceful Mind

Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“The only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well.”

People Knows Wells Happiness Truly Happy

Author:Susan Sutherland Isaacs

“There is nothing so difficult to describe as happiness. Whether some feeling of envy enters into the mind upon hearing of it, or whether it is so calm, so unassuming, so little ostentatious in itself, that words give an imperfect idea of it, I know not. It is easier to enjoy it, than define it. ... and is oftener found at home, when home has not been embittered by dissensions, suspicions and guilt, than any where else upon earth. Yes, it is in home and in those who watch there for us.”

Source: The Works of Lady Caroline Lamb: Glenarvon (1816)

“And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.”

Knows Littles Pain Happiness Girl Wish Fantasy Special Sorrow Protect Core Innocence Princess Happily Ever After Ever After Lace

Author:Peggy Orenstein

“And feel that I am happier than I know.”

Knows Feels Happiness

Author:John Milton

“Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.”

Ifs Knows Men Age Happiness Next Mankind Passing Passings Folly Links Elegance Happy Man

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.”

Knows Happiness Goal Life Goal Chimera

Author:Mason Cooley

“In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.”

Knows Needs Wells Ends Happiness Winning Losing Well Being Winner Tennis The End Of The Day Loser Winning And Losing Where You Stand

Author:Chris Evert

“Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.”

Knows Wisdom Able Past Happiness Joy Enjoy Ability Mistake Knowledge History

Book:Doctor's Orders

Source: Doctor's Orders

“When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.”

Knows Heart Happiness Understanding Healing Mindfulness Concentration Hug Reconciliation

Book:Happiness (EasyRead Edition)

Source: Happiness (EasyRead Edition)

“Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.”

Ifs Knows Use Happiness Know How Benefits Granted

Author:Claudius Claudianus

“Happiness don't ask to see who you be afore her sits down at your table. 'Er comes and sits with them as know how to welcome her and keep her the willing guest.”

Knows Happiness Asks Know How Willing Tables Welcome Guests

Author:Jean Plaidy

“I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.”

Thinking Knows Care Happiness Practice Skills Anxiety Notes Vocation

Author:Corra May Harris

“I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American in every community has the right to pursue happiness.”

Thinking Knows Believe Care Happiness Community Cities Media Don't Care Pursue

Author:Jeb Bush

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

Source: Garden of Eden

“I am YOUR biggest fan, I love each one of you because of the support that you took to me. I know that people been saying that I do this for money, but I really don't. I do this for YOU, for your loyalty, for everything you've done, you are doing and you'll do in my life. Music has been my whole life since I was 4 years old, but you turned it into a whole experience of happiness. I know that I am not perfect, and maybe I don't worth it to put on your headphones and listen to this 14-years-old wannabe, full of ego and that brag about almost everything, but it's not about that, it's about you”

“If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!”

“The more I see the less I know for sure.”

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Author:John Lennon

“African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.”

Knows Men Enough Truth Happiness Joy Virtue Laughter

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others, to which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks

“When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.”

Knows God Happiness Names Knowledge Recognition Jehovah

Author:Prince

“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”

“If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”

Ifs Knows Want Love Inspirational Believe Motivational Happiness Success Simple Education Successful Teacher Believe In Yourself Being Successful Road To Success Recipe For Success Teacher Appreciation

Author:Will Rogers

“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”

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Book:Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

Source: Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt