Happiness Quotes

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Top 10 Happiness Quotes:

" I cannot dance O Lord, unless Thou lead me. If Thou wilt that I leap joyfully then must Thou Thyself first dance and sing! Then will I leap for love... There will I remain and circle evermore."
- Mechtild of Magdeburg

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."
- Louisa May Alcott

Lady gleefully jumping on the beach"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
- Dalai Lama XIV

"A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations."
- Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
- John Lennon

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life-to be happy-it's all that matters."
- Audrey Hepburn

More Happiness Quotes:

"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, Anne of Green Gables

"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness."
- Ayn Rand

"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

"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
- Anne Frank

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
- AristotleA father and a child walk on train tracks

"Top 15 Things Money Can't Buy
Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity."
- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes."
- Katherine Mansfield

"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy."
- J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
- Helen Keller

"Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
- Mother Teresa


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