Happiness Quotes From Great Thinkers

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What is happiness? Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. Philosophers and religious thinkers have often defined happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything - Unknown
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. - Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. - Dale Carnegie
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. - Seneca
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - James Openheim
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas Jerrold
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. - Maxim Gorky
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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 Keonig
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. - Walter Savage Landor
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. - Eric Hoffer
Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. - Norman Bradburn
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. - Mignon McLaughlin
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. - Andrew Delbanco
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. - Joseph Joubert
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. - Don Herold
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. - Taisen Deshimar
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. - Freya Stark
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guilaume Apollinaire
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.- - Hosea Ballou
Some pursue happiness, others create it. - Unknown
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. - - Unknown
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. - George Bernard Shaw
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. - Albert Camus
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. - William Feather
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
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For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Unknown
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. - Mildred Barthel
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. - Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. - Charles Gow
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. - Robert S. Lynd
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. - C.P. Snow
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