196 Quotable Sayings

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[
  "Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?",
  "Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling",
  "Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.",
  "There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.",
  "I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.",
  "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.",
  "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.",
  "The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.",
  "And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.",
  "Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.",
  "Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.",
  "I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.",
  "Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.",
  "Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.",
  "Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.",
  "Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.",
  "So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.",
  "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.",
  "Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.",
  "Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.",
  "Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.",
  "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.",
  "Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called \"All the Things That Could Go Wrong.",
  "I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.",
  "Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.",
  "When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.",
  "I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.",
  "Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.",
  "With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.",
  "I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.",
  "It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.",
  "When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.",
  "You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.",
  "Happy girls are the prettiest",
  "Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.",
  "Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.",
  "Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.",
  "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.",
  "Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?",
  "Laughter is poison to fear.",
  "There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.",
  "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.",
  "i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.",
  "The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.",
  "The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.",
  "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.",
  "The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.",
  "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.",
  "Success is getting what you want.. Happiness is wanting what you get.",
  "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.",
  "I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.",
  "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.",
  "And I didn't choose it, Kat. I chose you.",
  "Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.",
  "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.",
  "right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.",
  "Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.",
  "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.",
  "Without pleasure men would live like a fool and die.",
  "Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.",
  "Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.",
  "Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in life.",
  "No medicine cures what happiness cannot.",
  "Happiness [is] only real when shared",
  "Happiness is a state of activity.",
  "Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.",
  "Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.",
  "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.",
  "My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.",
  "The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into life.",
  "It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.",
  "There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.",
  "The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.",
  "Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.",
  "The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does",
  "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.",
  "Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them",
  "Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.",
  "From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.",
  "Happiness is a warm puppy.",
  "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.",
  "Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.",
  "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get",
  "All who joy would win Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin.",
  "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking",
  "Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat mistakes forever.",
  "It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.",
  "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.",
  "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.",
  "The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.",
  "I've got nothing to do today but smile.",
  "Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.",
  "Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.",
  "Memory is the happiness of being alone.",
  "You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.",
  "We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.",
  "Happiness only real when shared.",
  "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.",
  "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.",
  "It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.",
  "You must be the best judge of your own happiness.",
  "Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.",
  "Is anyone anywhere happy?",
  "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.",
  "Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.",
  "You can't buy happiness",
  "You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes",
  "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.",
  "My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.",
  "Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.",
  "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.",
  "You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.",
  "Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.",
  "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.",
  "Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world.",
  "Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,  Whispering 'it will be happier'",
  "A thing of beauty is a joy forever.",
  "I always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.",
  "All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.",
  "Whoever is happy will make others happy.",
  "My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?",
  "A flower blossoms for its own joy.",
  "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.",
  "The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.",
  "You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.",
  "Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.",
  "Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.",
  "Happiness depends upon ourselves.",
  "I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.",
  "Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.",
  "I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.",
  "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.",
  "Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.",
  "Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.",
  "I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.",
  "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.",
  "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.",
  "People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!",
  "Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure",
  "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.",
  "Right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.",
  "Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.",
  "For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.",
  "You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.",
  "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.",
  "Living well and beautiful and justly are all one thing.",
  "The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.",
  "The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.",
  "We're all golden sunflowers inside.",
  "Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.",
  "It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life",
  "Love is too precious to be ashamed of.",
  "Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.",
  "Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.",
  "Many people think excitement is happiness. When you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.",
  "Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.",
  "I'd far rather be happy than right any day.",
  "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.",
  "Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.",
  "My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.",
  "I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.",
  "That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!",
  "With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.",
  "All happiness depends on courage and work.",
  "If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.",
  "Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.",
  "Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.",
  "If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas.",
  "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.",
  "Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.",
  "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.",
  "Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.",
  "I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes",
  "I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.",
  "And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,  They danced by the light of the moon.",
  "Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.",
  "Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens",
  "Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair.",
  "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.",
  "Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections",
  "We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.",
  "Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.",
  "There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.",
  "If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.",
  "All animals except man know the principle business of life is to enjoy it.",
  "The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.",
  "Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.",
  "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.",
  "I just published “The Ultimate Principle”",
  "I just published “Human Super Powers”",
  "I just published “Right Words”",
  "I just published “My Humanness is Showing”",
  "I just published “Right Reaction”",
  "I just published “Do you want peace?”",
  "I just published “On Perspective”",
  "Things have no hold on the soul. Disturbance only comes from within. Marcus Aurelius"
]