Happiness Quotes

Is it a destination or a practice? These quotes explore the most sought-after human experience.

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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
Marcus Aurelius
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"In this world there is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our control."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue from the pursuit of meaning."
Viktor Frankl
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"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."
Viktor Frankl
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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else."
Morrie Schwartz
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"In the smile of Vasudeva is the whole world."
Siddhartha
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"The warrior of the light knows that paradise is in the joy of the search"
The Alchemist
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"You see how few things you need to grasp to live happily and nobly."
Marcus Aurelius
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"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness."
Viktor Frankl
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"Happiness ensues, as a side effect, once you have found meaning and purpose in life."
Viktor Frankl
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"A human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but one in search of a reason for being happy."
Viktor Frankl
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"Happiness is not something that can be pursued; it must ensue from having found meaning."
Viktor Frankl
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"I have learned that unhappiness comes from desire, not from the lack of anything."
Siddhartha
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"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness"
The Alchemist
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"Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself"
Viktor Frankl
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"It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness"
Viktor Frankl
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"Happiness ensues from purpose, not from pursuit of pleasure"
Viktor Frankl
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"One cannot be unhappy when one has a flower."
The Little Prince
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"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life"
Henry David Thoreau
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"The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness"
The Alchemist
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"True happiness is to enjoy your present possessions without anxiety about the future."
Seneca
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"If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy."
The Fox
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"I have become wiser and know more and more, but the happiness, the cheerfulness never grew with it"
Siddhartha
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"It's a small thing to make me happy."
Santiago
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"True happiness is to enjoy your present possessions, without anxiety about the future."
Seneca
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"Neither poverty nor riches is miserable; rather, it is the mind that makes one so."
Seneca
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"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
Zarathustra
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"Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself."
Henry David Thoreau
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"If you came at four in the afternoon, then at three I shall begin to be happy."
The Fox