“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): as attributed in Helen Eisenberg and Larry Eisenberg: “The Omnibus of Fun” (1956)
“Happiness springs from intense activity in congenial surroundings.” -Harold Nicholson
“Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.” -Richelle E. Goodrich (Richelle Elaine Goodrich (born 1968)): “Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year” (5 December 2013)
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“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.” -Author Unknown
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.” -Judith May
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“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.” -Author Unknown
“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go ’round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.” -Jean Webster (pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876 - 1916)): “Daddy-Long-Legs” (1912)
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“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
“Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.” -Frank Baer (Paul Frank ‘Frank’ Baer (1894 - 1930))
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“If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.” -Mary Higgins Clark (Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark (1927 - 2020))
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.” -Elizabeth Gilbert: “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, Indonesia, and India” (16 February 2006) book
“Don’t wait for things to get easier, simpler, better. Life will always be complicated. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you’ll run out of time.” -Author Unknown
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“It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don’t pity them, don’t feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.” -Brutus Hamilton
“The happiest people don’t worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it.” -Author Unknown
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“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -Norman MacEwan (Norman Duckworth Kerr MacEwan (1881 - 1953))
“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” -Bernard Meltzer (Bernard C. Meltzer (1916 - 1998))
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“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, whole-heartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” -William H. Sheldon (William Herbert Sheldon (1898 - 1977))
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” -Frederick Koenig (Friedrich Gottlob Koenig (1774 - 1833))
“Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.” -James Freeman Clarke (1810 - 1888)
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“If you want to be happy . . . then be happy.” -Author Unknown
“If you want to be happy, be.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“The secret of happiness is something to do.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
“The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing.” -Author Unknown
“Happiness can be as close as your next thought.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
“Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“Now happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.” -John Mason Good (1764 - 1827): “The Book of Nature” (1826), Series III, Lecture VII
“The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.” -Hugh Black
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“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it; every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” -John D. Rockefeller III (John Davison Rockefeller III (1906 - 1978))
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” -George Sand (pseudonym of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin (1804 -1876))
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“If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as if it were a goal in itself, nor will he be seeking for it among the nebulous wastes of metaphysics . . . To find happiness, we must seek for it in a focus outside ourselves.” -W. Béran Wolfe (Walter Béran Wolfe (1900 - 1935))
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“If being happy is important to you, try this: instead of regretting all you lack, celebrate all you’ve got.” -Brian Vaszily (Brian William Vaszily (born 1970))
“Happiness isn’t at the end of the rainbow. Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow. Following the rainbow is happiness, not getting to the end of it.” -Werner Erhard (Werner Hans Erhard (born 1935 as John Paul ‘Jack’ Rosenberg))
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“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.” -Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784): as quoted in Harald W. Tietze: “Happyology” (1 December 2000), page 28
“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.” -Author Unknown
“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” -Author Unknown
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“You do not find a happy life. You make it.” -Camilla E. Kimball (Camilla Eyring Kimball (1894 - 1987))
“Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“One of the simplest ways to stay happy is by letting go of the things that make you sad.” -Tinku Razoria
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“Life is huge! Rejoice about the Sun, Moon, flowers, and sky. Rejoice about the food you have to eat. Rejoice about the body that houses your spirit. Rejoice about the fact that you can be a positive force in the world around you. Rejoice about the love that is around you. If you want to be happy, commit to making your life one of rejoicing.” -Author Unknown
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“To be happy you must be your sunshine.” -C. E. Jerningham (Charles Edward Jerningham (1854 - 1921))
“Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings. It’s something we make inside ourselves.” -Cornelia ten Boom (Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom (1892 - 1983))
“Happiness begins in facing life with a smile and a wink.” -Author Unknown
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“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951)): “The Fruits of the Earth” (1897)
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” -Guillaume Apollinaire
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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” -Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 - 1910)): as attributed in Helen Eisenberg and Larry Eisenberg: “The Omnibus of Fun” (1956)
“Happiness springs from intense activity in congenial surroundings.” -Harold Nicholson
“Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.” -Richelle E. Goodrich (Richelle Elaine Goodrich (born 1968)): “Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year” (5 December 2013)
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“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
“Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.” -Author Unknown
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.” -Judith May
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“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.” -Author Unknown
“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go ’round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.” -Jean Webster (pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876 - 1916)): “Daddy-Long-Legs” (1912)
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“There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
“Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.” -Frank Baer (Paul Frank ‘Frank’ Baer (1894 - 1930))
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“If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.” -Mary Higgins Clark (Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark (1927 - 2020))
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings.” -Elizabeth Gilbert: “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, Indonesia, and India” (16 February 2006) book
“Don’t wait for things to get easier, simpler, better. Life will always be complicated. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you’ll run out of time.” -Author Unknown
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“It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest men. When you see 20 or 30 men line up for a distance race in some meet, don’t pity them, don’t feel sorry for them. Better envy them instead.” -Brutus Hamilton
“The happiest people don’t worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it.” -Author Unknown
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“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -Norman MacEwan (Norman Duckworth Kerr MacEwan (1881 - 1953))
“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” -Bernard Meltzer (Bernard C. Meltzer (1916 - 1998))
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“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, whole-heartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” -William H. Sheldon (William Herbert Sheldon (1898 - 1977))
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” -Frederick Koenig (Friedrich Gottlob Koenig (1774 - 1833))
“Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.” -James Freeman Clarke (1810 - 1888)
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“If you want to be happy . . . then be happy.” -Author Unknown
“If you want to be happy, be.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“The secret of happiness is something to do.” -John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
“The happiest people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing.” -Author Unknown
“Happiness can be as close as your next thought.” -Charles F. Glassman: “Brain Drain: The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life” (2009)
“Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
“Now happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature: it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.” -John Mason Good (1764 - 1827): “The Book of Nature” (1826), Series III, Lecture VII
“The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.” -Hugh Black
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“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it; every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.” -John D. Rockefeller III (John Davison Rockefeller III (1906 - 1978))
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” -George Sand (pseudonym of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin (1804 -1876))
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“If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as if it were a goal in itself, nor will he be seeking for it among the nebulous wastes of metaphysics . . . To find happiness, we must seek for it in a focus outside ourselves.” -W. Béran Wolfe (Walter Béran Wolfe (1900 - 1935))
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“If being happy is important to you, try this: instead of regretting all you lack, celebrate all you’ve got.” -Brian Vaszily (Brian William Vaszily (born 1970))
“Happiness isn’t at the end of the rainbow. Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow. Following the rainbow is happiness, not getting to the end of it.” -Werner Erhard (Werner Hans Erhard (born 1935 as John Paul ‘Jack’ Rosenberg))
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“Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.” -Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784): as quoted in Harald W. Tietze: “Happyology” (1 December 2000), page 28
“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.” -Author Unknown
“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” -Author Unknown
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“You do not find a happy life. You make it.” -Camilla E. Kimball (Camilla Eyring Kimball (1894 - 1987))
“Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955)))
“One of the simplest ways to stay happy is by letting go of the things that make you sad.” -Tinku Razoria
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“Life is huge! Rejoice about the Sun, Moon, flowers, and sky. Rejoice about the food you have to eat. Rejoice about the body that houses your spirit. Rejoice about the fact that you can be a positive force in the world around you. Rejoice about the love that is around you. If you want to be happy, commit to making your life one of rejoicing.” -Author Unknown
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“To be happy you must be your sunshine.” -C. E. Jerningham (Charles Edward Jerningham (1854 - 1921))
“Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings. It’s something we make inside ourselves.” -Cornelia ten Boom (Cornelia ‘Corrie’ ten Boom (1892 - 1983))
“Happiness begins in facing life with a smile and a wink.” -Author Unknown
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“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951)): “The Fruits of the Earth” (1897)
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” -Guillaume Apollinaire
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“Find your own happiness . . . it’s not the same for everyone.” -Author Unknown
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“We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.” -Ethel Percy Andrus (1884 - 1967)
“The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality.” -William Lyon Phelps (William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps (1865 - 1943))
“The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.” -Charles W. Eliot (Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926))
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“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))
“If you ever find happiness hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles*, on her nose all the time.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
*spectacles: eyeglasses
“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933)) at http://www.Waitley.com/
“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” -H. C. Mattern
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“I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life’s beauty with you.” -J. Kenfield Morley (John Kenfield Morley, also known as John Angelo Posus (born 1906))
“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): as quoted in Leslie Klein: “Spirituality in a Materialistic World” (2008)
“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.” -Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934)
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“Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.” -John Buchan (1875 - 1940): “A Lodge in the Wilderness” (1906), Chapter I
“How To Be Happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.” -Author Unknown
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“We must be doing something to be happy.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” -John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
“Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.’” -Evangeline Lilly (Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born 1979))
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“Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.” -Vernon Howard (Vernon Linwood Howard (1918 - 1992))
“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.” -V. S. Pritchett (Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900 - 1997))
“It is the chiefest* point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” -Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus (1466 - 1536))
*chiefest: most important
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963)): “Distractions I,” essay published in Christopher Isherwood, editor: “Vedanta for the Western World” (1945)
“Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.” -Karl Reiland
“True happiness only comes by making others happy.” -Thomas S. Monson (Thomas Spencer Monson (1927 - 2018)): “Christmas Devotional” (2007)
“Enjoy where you are at on the way to where you are going.” -Author Unknown
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“Happiness will come to you when it comes from you.” -Author Unknown
“True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1971))
“The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893 - 1986)
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“The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life, and in elevating them to art.” -William Morris (1834 - 1896)
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” -George Washington Burnap (1802 - 1859): “The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course in Lectures” (1848), ‘Lecture IV’
“Happiness is not a string of miscellaneous adventures or experiences but an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” -Francesca Reigler
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“You don’t need anyone else’s permission to be happy.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“Too happy would you be, did you but know your own advantages.” -Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.))
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.” -Dean Norris
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“The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” -David Burns: “Intimate Connections” (1985)
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“You don’t become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.” -Harold S. Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))
“Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been ‘hurt by the archers,’ nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Winterslow: Essays and Characters” (1850), ‘Mind and Motive’
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness, being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” -Iris Murdoch (Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch (1919 - 1999)): “The Nice and the Good” (1968), chapter 22; line of character Willy Kost
“Take a little time to do whatever makes a happy you.” -Author Unknown
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“Make a list of things that make you happy. Make a list of things you do every day. Compare the lists. Adjust accordingly.” -Dallas Clayton
“He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him.” -Author Unknown
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” -J. M. Barrie (James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937))
“Work, either with the hands or the head. The moment you have something to do, the draughts are open and the chimney draws and you are happy.” -Author Unknown
“Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” -Emory Austin
“To be happy, make other people happy.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975): “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 64 at https://stevemaraboli.net/
“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.” -Charles M. Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939))
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” -Roy Goodman (Roy Matz Goodman (1930 - 2014))
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Rubin (Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923 - 2019))
“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985))
“There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.” -Thích Nhất Hanh (born 1926 as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo)
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Green Gables” (June 1908)
“Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy.” -Gretta Brooker Palmer (Gretta Brooker Palmer Clark (1905 - 1953))
“Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, ‘Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I’ve got a home that I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.’ If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too.” -Harrison Ford (born 1942)
“Stop waiting for Friday, for Summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.” -Author Unknown
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“To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
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“We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.” -Ethel Percy Andrus (1884 - 1967)
“The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality.” -William Lyon Phelps (William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps (1865 - 1943))
“The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.” -Charles W. Eliot (Charles William Eliot (1834 - 1926))
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“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.” -André Gide (André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951))
“If you ever find happiness hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles*, on her nose all the time.” -Josh Billings (pseudonym of Henry Wheeler Shaw (1818 - 1885))
*spectacles: eyeglasses
“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.” -C. C. Colton (Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832))
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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” -Denis Waitley (Denis E. Waitley (born 1933)) at http://www.Waitley.com/
“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” -H. C. Mattern
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“I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life’s beauty with you.” -J. Kenfield Morley (John Kenfield Morley, also known as John Angelo Posus (born 1906))
“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): as quoted in Leslie Klein: “Spirituality in a Materialistic World” (2008)
“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.” -Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934)
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“Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it.” -John Buchan (1875 - 1940): “A Lodge in the Wilderness” (1906), Chapter I
“How To Be Happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.” -Author Unknown
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“We must be doing something to be happy.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” -John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
“Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.’” -Evangeline Lilly (Nicole Evangeline Lilly (born 1979))
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“Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.” -Vernon Howard (Vernon Linwood Howard (1918 - 1992))
“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.” -V. S. Pritchett (Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900 - 1997))
“It is the chiefest* point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” -Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus (1466 - 1536))
*chiefest: most important
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963)): “Distractions I,” essay published in Christopher Isherwood, editor: “Vedanta for the Western World” (1945)
“Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.” -Orison S. Marden (Orison Swett Marden (1848 - 1924))
“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.” -Karl Reiland
“True happiness only comes by making others happy.” -Thomas S. Monson (Thomas Spencer Monson (1927 - 2018)): “Christmas Devotional” (2007)
“Enjoy where you are at on the way to where you are going.” -Author Unknown
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“Happiness will come to you when it comes from you.” -Author Unknown
“True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1971))
“The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893 - 1986)
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“The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life, and in elevating them to art.” -William Morris (1834 - 1896)
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” -George Washington Burnap (1802 - 1859): “The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course in Lectures” (1848), ‘Lecture IV’
“Happiness is not a string of miscellaneous adventures or experiences but an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” -Francesca Reigler
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“You don’t need anyone else’s permission to be happy.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior (born 1955)) at https://GreatDay.com/
“Too happy would you be, did you but know your own advantages.” -Publius Vergilius Maro (also known simply as Vergil or Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.))
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com
“If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.” -Dean Norris
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“The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))
“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” -David Burns: “Intimate Connections” (1985)
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” -Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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“You don’t become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.” -Harold S. Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))
“Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been ‘hurt by the archers,’ nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “Winterslow: Essays and Characters” (1850), ‘Mind and Motive’
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness, being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” -Iris Murdoch (Jean Iris ‘Iris’ Murdoch (1919 - 1999)): “The Nice and the Good” (1968), chapter 22; line of character Willy Kost
“Take a little time to do whatever makes a happy you.” -Author Unknown
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“Make a list of things that make you happy. Make a list of things you do every day. Compare the lists. Adjust accordingly.” -Dallas Clayton
“He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him.” -Author Unknown
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” -J. M. Barrie (James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937))
“Work, either with the hands or the head. The moment you have something to do, the draughts are open and the chimney draws and you are happy.” -Author Unknown
“Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnegey (1888 - 1955)))
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” -Emory Austin
“To be happy, make other people happy.” -W. Clement Stone (William Clement Stone (1902 - 2002))
“Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975): “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 64 at https://stevemaraboli.net/
“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.” -Charles M. Schwab (Charles Michael Schwab (1862 - 1939))
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” -Roy Goodman (Roy Matz Goodman (1930 - 2014))
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Rubin (Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923 - 2019))
“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985))
“There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.” -Thích Nhất Hanh (born 1926 as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo)
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” -L. M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942)): “Anne of Green Gables” (June 1908)
“Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy.” -Gretta Brooker Palmer (Gretta Brooker Palmer Clark (1905 - 1953))
“Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, ‘Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I’ve got a home that I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.’ If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too.” -Harrison Ford (born 1942)
“Stop waiting for Friday, for Summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.” -Author Unknown
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“To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
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