“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
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Happiness Quotes
Source: Civilization and Its Discontents
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”
“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”
“All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Source: The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
Source: The Lycian Shore
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.”
“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Source: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
Source: Les Miserables Volume One
“We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Source: The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays