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Today I am sharing what the wise people who have walked on this earth have said about happiness and how to uncover it.
Below are the 30 most inspiring happiness quotes:
“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else” -Chinese Proverb
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” -Stacey Charter
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” -Epictetus
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”Robert A. Heinlein
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”Mahatma Gandhi
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”Confucius
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”Dalai Lama
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”Anthony de Mello
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”Marcel Pagnol
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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
“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.”Dalai Lama
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”James M. Barrie
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Happiness is a myth we seek,If manifested surely irks;Like river speeding to the plain,On its arrival slows and murks.For man is happy only inHis aspiration to the heights;When he attains his goal, he coolsAnd longs for other distant flights.”Kahlil Gibran
“Happiness is a state of activity.”Aristotle
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”Eleanor Roosevelt
“Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”Charles Caleb Colton
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”Winston Churchill
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”Andy Rooney
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”Martha Washington
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”Rose Lane
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”Albert Ellis
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”Leo Tolstoy
“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
“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”Brian Tracy
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”George Bernard Shaw
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”Abraham Lincoln
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”Unknown
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”Mark Twain
What is your favorite quote on happiness? Feel free to share the best one(s) you have found in this article or in your life in the comments section below.
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