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those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
Alex Flinn
Success is getting what you want..Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
Stendhal
It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it appears that happiness is easier to get used to than despair. The second time you have a root beer float, for instance, your happiness at sipping the delicious concoction may not be quite as enormous as when you first had a root beer float, and the twelfth time your happiness may be still less enormous, until root beer floats begin to offer you very little happiness at all, because you have become used to the taste of vanilla ice cream and root beer mixed together. However, the second time you find a thumbtack in your root beer float, your despair is much greater than the first time, when you dismissed the thumbtack as a freak accident rather than part of the scheme of a soda jerk, a phrase which here means "ice cream shop employee who is trying to injure your tongue," and by the twelfth time you find a thumbtack, your despair is even greater still, until you can hardly utter the phrase "root beer float" without bursting into tears. It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
Lemony Snicket
Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.
Gregory David Roberts
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.
Gretchen Rubin
Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
Laini Taylor
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama XIV
Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
Sarah Addison Allen
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.
C.S. Lewis
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J.D. Salinger
I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.
Sri Chinmoy
What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.
Anaïs Nin
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
Graham Greene
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
J.D. Salinger
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Bill Watterson
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
Marianne Williamson
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
Charles Bukowski
You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.
Mandy Hale
I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Douglas Adams
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
Drew Barrymore
I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
Elizabeth Gilbert
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G.K. Chesterton
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
Carrie Jones
Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it
Viktor E. Frankl
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
Pat Conroy
Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.
Ann Brashares
I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.
Neil Gaiman
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
Jane Austen
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
Gordon B. Hinckley
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Douglas Adams
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Hunter S. Thompson
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
Jane Austen
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Mark Twain
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Alexandre Dumas
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
J.M. Barrie
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
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
Sylvia Plath
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
W.P. Kinsella
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
Lauren Oliver
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
Stephen Chbosky
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
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin
To achieve your dreams you must be willing to take massive action over a long period, even when there is no evidence of progress.
Mensah Oteh
Consistency in action is an essential component of success.
Mensah Oteh
Although a decision is often viewed as the turning point, it is action that creates tangible results.
Mensah Oteh
Action is where sacrifice is honoured and where you require persistence and courage to endure all that life throws in your direction.
Mensah Oteh
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