:) Quotes On Happiness :)

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life
of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by
being shared.

- Buddha

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"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."
Aristotle

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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things.

~ Robert Brault

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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.

~ Joseph Addison

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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks
or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or
acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that
never leaves him.

Buddha

[Santhosh Raghavan]

"Sometimes your happiness is the source of your smile, but sometimes
your smile can be the source of your happiness."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

[Karthik Eswaran]

Here are a few of my favorite quotes on this topic :-)

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.  ~Author Unknown

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.  ~Bertrand Russell

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.  ~Author Unknown

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.  ~Frederick Keonig

Thanks,
Karthik

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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,
liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

- Andrew Carnegie

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Sadness and good food are incompatible. The old sages knew that wine
lets the tongue loose, but one can grow melancholy with even the best
bottle, especially as one grows older. The appearance of food,
however, brings instant happiness. A paella, a choucroute garnie, a
pot of tripes a la mode de Caen, and so many other dishes of peasant
origin guarantee merriment. The best talk is around that table.
Poetry and wisdom are its company. The true Muses are cooks. Cats
and dogs don't stay far from a busy kitchen. Heaven is a pot of chili
simmering on the stove. If I were to write about the happiest days of
my life, many of them would have to do with food and wine and a table
full of friends.

-- Charles Simic, The
Unemployed Fortune-Teller
The University of
Michigan Press, 1994

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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 De Angelis

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“It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of
having as little misery, and as much happiness as possible.”

Samuel Johnson

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"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your
powers along lines of excellence."

~John F. Kennedy~