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Quotes about Happiness

• "It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." - Charles Spurgeon

• "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher
• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
• A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down. Beverly Sills (1929~) American Opera Singer
• Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life.  Foster C. McClellan
• Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. 
• Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. 
• Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.  Brian Tracy
• Happiness depends solely upon your own attitude. 
• Happiness is a healthy mental attitude, a grateful spirit, a clear conscience, and a heart full of love.
• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson (submitted by Jillin2001)
• Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. William H. Sheldon
• Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
• Happiness is natural; joy is spiritual Kenny Martin
• Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. Burton Hills
• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Samuel Johnson
• Happiness is what you are, not what you have. 
• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann von Goethe
• I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose. Epictetus
• I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington
• I am happy and content because I think I am. Alain-Rene Lesage
• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington (1732 - 1802)
• If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God? Blaise Pascal
• I'm not one who feels that you have to be brave to be a star, but that your life can be satisfying and happy if you work to make a difference. The point is to make a difference by the way you live your life. Esther Peterson (1906-1997) Labor advocate and presidential advisor
• It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• It isn't your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it's your disposition.
• Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
• Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
• 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
• Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death.  Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet
• People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Sydney J. Harris
• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
• Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. Gustave Le Bon
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
• Some pursue happiness - others create it. 
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) Medical missionary and Nobel Peace Prize Winner
• The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); American statesman and scientist
• The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it. Andrew Dunbar
• The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you." Klare Provine
• The happiest people are less forgetting and more forgiving. Anonymous
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. --MARCUS AURELIUS
• The more importance that is placed on possessions in the pursuit of happiness, The more distance there is placed between happiness and the pursuer!
• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. CP Snow
• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. --JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
• The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. John D. Rockefeller III
• The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too. Henry Ward Beecher
• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. Victor Hugo
• The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Benjamin Franklin
• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
• To describe happiness is to diminish it. Henri Stendhal
• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. --ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
• True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
• True happiness may be sought, thought, or caught, but never bought.
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
• We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.  Robert Urich
• We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda
• We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith
• We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. Dean Stanley
• What happens if you're scared half to death TWICE?  Woody Paige
• When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. Mother Teresa
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller
• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn
• When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. Malcolm Forbes
• You can be happy no matter what your circumstances might be. 
• You can never get happy. You can always be happy. 

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Happiness starts with you. That's the key! You have the choice to decide how you will start each day, interact with those around you, and most importantly be for yourself. 

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Deuteronomy 24:5 NLT - 5 "A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or be given any other official responsibilities. He must be free to spend one year at home, bringing happiness to the wife he has married.

Psalm 86:4 NLT - 4 Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you.

Proverbs 10:28 NLT - 28 The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing.

Ecclesiastes 2:3 NLT - 3 After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. And while still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness. In this way, I tried to experience the only happiness most people find during their brief life in this world.

Ecclesiastes 5:10 NLT - 10 Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!

Ecclesiastes 8:15 NLT - 15 So I recommend having fun, because there is nothing better for people in this world than to eat, drink, and enjoy life. That way they will experience some happiness along with all the hard work God gives them under the sun.

Luke 6:24 NLT - 24 "What sorrow awaits you who are rich, for you have your only happiness now.

Luke 12:32 NLT - 32 "So don't be afraid, little flock. For it gives your Father great happiness to give you the Kingdom.

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