Life & Living: Happiness Quotes

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"I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - That's when I get in trouble"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

Angelina Jolie

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

William E. Gladstone

"It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so"

Edgar Allan Poe, Poet

Edgar Allan Poe

"Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful!"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

Martin Yan

"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness"

John Buchan, Politician

John Buchan

"Having a great intellect is no path to being happy"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

Stephen Fry

"But happiness is no respecter of persons"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

Stephen Fry

"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed"

Nicolas Chamfort, Writer

Nicolas Chamfort

"That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past"

Andre Maurois, Writer

Andre Maurois

"No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy"

Dan Castellaneta, Actor

Dan Castellaneta

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we'd have a pretty good time"

Edith Wharton, Author

Edith Wharton

"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself"

Sam Levenson, Author

"Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier"

Sam Levenson, Author

"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

Austin O'Malley

"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness"

Stendhal, Writer

"It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury"

Thomas Moore, Poet

Thomas Moore

"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

Sydney Smith

"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy"

Cyril Connolly, Journalist

"Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"To buy happiness is to sell soul"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think?"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know, all that mess"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

Michael Hutchence

"I think it's important to have a sense of humor about life, to be able to laugh at yourself and not take things too seriously"

Mia Maestro, Actress

Mia Maestro

"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness will not be happy"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Happiness is the longing for repetition"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so"

Jose Marti, Activist

"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

Lenny Kravitz

"The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can"

Charles de Lint, Writer

"I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

Shia LaBeouf

"Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real"

Deepak Chopra, Philosopher

Deepak Chopra

"I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"There's no such thing as a perfect life, but there are moments of perfect happiness. And those moments make everything else worth it"

Emma Heming Willis, Actress

Emma Heming Willis

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