Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
“Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.”
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Lord Byron
“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.”
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Henry David Thoreau
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
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Author Unknown
The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
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Anne Frank
“Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy!”
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Author Unknown
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
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Fontenelle
“A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.”
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Roy M. Goodman
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel — not a destination.”
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Cynthia Nelms
“Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
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Colette
“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.”
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Author Unknown
“He who would possess happiness must pay the price of effort.”
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Werner Erhard
“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”
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John 13:17
“If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”
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Eric Hoffer
“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
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John 15:11
“I have spoken unto you ...that your joy might be full.”
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Buddha
“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”
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Edith Wharton
“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.”
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Proverbs 3:13
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
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Author Unknown
“Righteousness always brings joy, and sin always brings misery no matter what the ads say.”
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Lorenzo Snow
“Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.”.
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Milton R. Hunter
“Happiness comes from within, and not from without.”
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Stephen L. Richards
“I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.”
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Proverbs 17:22 –
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
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George Santayana
“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
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Andrew Carnegie
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
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Leo Tolstoy
“Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
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Samuel Johnson
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.”
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Buddha
“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.”
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Charles Schulz
“My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.”
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Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.”
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Psalms 127:4-5
“As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.”
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Author Unknown
“Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them.”
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Benjamin Disraeli
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
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Martha Washington
“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”
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John Milton
“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”
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Proverbs 14:21
“He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.”
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Bertrand Russell
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Happiness does not depend upon what happens outside of you, but on what happens inside of you. It is measured by the spirit with which you meet the problems of life.”
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Jim Thomson
“I can only think of one thing greater than being happy and that is to help another to be happy, too.”
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Ben Franklin
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
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Proverbs 16:20
“He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.”
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Proverbs 29:18
“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
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Robert Muller
“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
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C. P. Snow
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”
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1 Peter 3:14
“But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
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James M. Barrie
“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
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Romans 14:17
“For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
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Psalms 146:5
“Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God.”
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Kin Hubbard
“It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an' wealth have both failed.”
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James Oppenheim
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
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Albert Schweitzer
“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”
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Helen Keller
“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
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Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
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Tenzin Gyatso
“The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.”
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Groucho Marx
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”
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Carl Jung
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
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David Steindl-Rast
“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.”
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Tenzin Gyatso
“The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.”
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W. Beran Wolfe
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.”
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Helen Keller
“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.”
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Peyton Conway March
“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
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Carl Jung
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
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John Templeton
“Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.”
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Ezra Taft Benson
"Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love."
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Alexandre Dumas
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”
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Spencer W. Kimball
“Sometimes we get wrong notions, we think we have to be in a luxurious house, in a large city, with a new car in order to be happy. Happiness isn't there. Happiness isn't in a new car, it isn't in a new and luxurious apartment. Happiness isn't in banks and stocks. Happiness is where you make it, it's up to you. It comes from within, it doesn't come from things.”
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