Happiness Quotes

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

- Edward de Bono

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

- Eric Hoffer

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

- James Oppenheim

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

- Albert Schweitzer

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

- Carl Jung

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

- Mark Twain

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

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Happiness is a Swedish sunset -- it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.

- Mark Twain

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

Independence is happiness.

- Susan B. Anthony

Many people 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

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

- Mark Twain

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

- George Burns

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- Benjamin Disraeli

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

- Francoise de Motteville

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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

- Albert Schweitzer

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

- Martha Washington

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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwan

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.

- Albert Camus