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(1213 votes) 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 De Angelis
American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

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(1286 votes) happiness depends upon ourselves

aristotle aristotle

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(1027 votes) We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(1002 votes) Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(900 votes) 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
American Television Host

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(862 votes) If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(862 votes) Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(859 votes) Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened!

Dr. Seuss

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(852 votes) Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Louisa May Alcott
1832-1888, American Author

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(849 votes) 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
121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher

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(846 votes) It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alan Alda
1936-, American Actor

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(841 votes) True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(839 votes) Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(833 votes) The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

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(826 votes) To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(821 votes) Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire
1880-1918, Italian-born French Poet, Critic

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(817 votes) I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(814 votes) Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(810 votes) The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.

Prof. F. A. P. Aveling
American Professor

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(809 votes) The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(808 votes) I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist

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(807 votes) Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

Russell (Wayne) Baker
1925-, American Journalist

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(801 votes) True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(800 votes) Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

Norman Douglas
1868-1952, British Author

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(793 votes) What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(790 votes) The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

Sir James Jeans
1877-1946, British Scientist, Astronomer Royal

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(789 votes) Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Anne Frank
1929-1945, German Jewish Refugee, Diarist

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(788 votes) Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(784 votes) God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(783 votes) A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(782 votes) We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(777 votes) Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erik H. Erikson
Austrian Developmental Psychologist

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(770 votes) Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

William Maxwell
1676-1744, British - 5th Earl of Nithsdale

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(766 votes) Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Fred Adler

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(756 votes) Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer

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(755 votes) It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Denis Waitley
1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert

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(752 votes) Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British Novelist

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(751 votes) Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille
1606-1684, French Dramatist

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(751 votes) Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Gretta Brooker Palmer

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(751 votes) Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(750 votes) Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(748 votes) Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

J. Donald Walters
American Author, Lecturer, Playwright

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(743 votes) Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Boris Sokoloff

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(741 votes) Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn
American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

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(736 votes) If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus
c.341-270 BC, Greek Philosopher

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(734 votes) We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Frederick Koenig

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(720 votes) The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin
1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman

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(711 votes) Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies
1913-, Canadian Novelist, Journalist

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(707 votes) Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney
American Television News Personality

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(673 votes) Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Hosea Ballou
1771-1852, American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''

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