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How to Be Happy

12/5/2020

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“Find your own happiness . . . it’s not the same for everyone.” -Author Unknown
 
“Happiness springs from intense activity in congenial surroundings.” -Harold Nicholson
 
“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)

“Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.” -Richelle E. Goodrich (born 1968): “Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year” (5 December 2013)
 
“The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.” -Judith May
 
“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)
 
“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.” -Author Unknown
 
“Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.” -Frank Baer (Paul Frank ‘Frank’ Baer (1894 - 1930))
 
“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
 
“The happiest people don’t worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it.” -Author Unknown

“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” -Bernard Meltzer (Bernard C. Meltzer (1916 - 1998))
 
“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
 
“If you want to be happy . . . then be happy.” -Author Unknown
 
“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, whole-heartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” -William H. Sheldon (William Herbert Sheldon (1898 - 1977))
 
“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 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
 
“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
 
“Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.” -Alfred A. Montapert (Alfred Armand Montapert (1906 - 1997))
 
“You don’t become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.” -Harold Kushner (Harold Samuel Kushner (born 1935))
 
“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))
 
“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))
 
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” -George Sand
 
“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))
 
“It is neither wealth or splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which gives happiness.” -Author Unknown
 
“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))
 
“You do not find a happy life. You make it.” -Camilla E. Kimball (Camilla Eyring Kimball (1894 - 1987))
 
“To be happy you must be your sunshine.” -C. E. Jerningham (Charles Edward Jerningham (1854-1921))
 
“Too happy would you be, did you but know your own advantages.” -Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro, also known as Virgil (70 B.C.E. - 19 B.C.E.))
 
“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” -Author Unknown
 
“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

“Happiness begins in facing life with a smile and a wink.” -Author Unknown
 
“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))
 
“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))
 
“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)), website: http://www.Waitley.com/
 
“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 Breckenridge Carnegie (1888 - 1955))
 
“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
 
“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 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)
 
“Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it’s the understanding of something.” -Vernon Howard (Vernon Linwood Howard (1918 - 1992))
 
“There is only one real happiness in life and that is the happiness of creating.” -Frederick Delius

“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” -Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999): as quoted in Willy Kost: “The Nice and the Good” (1968), chapter 22
 
“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.” -V. S. Pritchett (Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900 - 1997))
 
“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)
 
“True happiness only comes by making others happy.” -Thomas S. Monson (Thomas Spencer Monson (1927 - 2018)): “Christmas Devotional” (2007)
 
“Happiness will come to you when it comes from you.” -Author Unknown
 
“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)
 
“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))
 
“We must be doing something to be happy.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
 
“How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.” -Author Unknown
 
“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))
 
“He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him.” -Author Unknown
 
“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))
 
“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
 
“Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.” -Author Unknown
 
“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
 
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” -Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
 
“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” -David Burns: “Intimate Connections” (1985)
 
“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph S. Marston, Junior (born 1955))
 
“In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.” -Karl Reiland
 
“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” -Desiderius Erasmus (Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus (1466 - 1536))

“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)))
 
“A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.” -Carol Holmes
 
“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))
 
“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 L. Phelps (William Lyon Phelps (1865 - 1943))
 
“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 (born 1923))
 
“Enjoy where you are at on the way to where you are going.” -Author Unknown
 
“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 (1850 - 1924))
 
“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)
 
“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)
 
“There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.” -Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926)
 
“True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something.” -Marvin J. Ashton (Marvin Jeremy Ashton (1915 - 1971))
 
“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
 
“The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” -Author Unknown
 
“Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy.” -Gretta Brooker Palmer (Gretta Brooker Palmer Clark (1905 - 1953))
 
“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
 
“To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.” -Earl Nightingale (1921 - 1989)
 
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