Quotes About Being Happy

“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
– Anne Frank
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“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss

“You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
– Epicurus
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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
– Helen Keller
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“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”
– Robert Anthony
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“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
– J.D. Salinger
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“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.”
– Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
– Barbara DeAngelis
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“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”
– W.P. Kinsella
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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
– Mark Twain
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“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.”
– Tom Brady
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“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
– St. Augustine
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“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
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– Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
– Edith Wharton
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“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
– Aristotle
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“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Happiness is a state of activity.”
– Aristotle
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
– Franklin Roosevelt