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Quotes About Happiness
Happiness can describe delight, contentment, connection or the ability to notice what is already good. These quotations approach joy from several angles rather than offering one formula.
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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
— Thomas Edison
“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.”
— Kyle Chandler
“It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.”
— Hannah More
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
— Aristotle
“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
— Lemony Snicket
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
— Winston Churchill
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.”
— Laozi
“Change your thoughts, change your life!”
— Unknown
“The happy and efficient people in this world are those who accept trouble as a normal detail of human life and resolve to capitalize it when it comes along.”
— H. Bertram Lewis
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To change ones life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.”
— William James
“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
— Charles M. Schulz
“Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.”
— Tony Robbins
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
— Albert Einstein
“Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”
— Brian Tracy
“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
— Jane Austen
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
— Alan Watts
“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.”
— Unknown
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
— Garrison Keillor
“Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.”
— Robert Anthony
“There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.”
— Alfred Korzybski
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- Oscar Wilde Irish playwright, poet and novelist
- Jane Austen English novelist
- William Shakespeare English playwright, poet and actor
- Emily Dickinson American poet
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