by Barbara Jean

 Happiness Quotations

   "A Happy Heart Makes its own Song"

Happiness Quotes:

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     InspirationalQuotations offers a selection of happiness quotes with insights 
into the nature and attainment of happiness. Happiness is our highestwell-being.
It is peace and gentleness and lightheartedness.  It is being  thankful forall the 
little special things which happen around us and to us  every day.  To behappy
is to be able to get a perspective when things look dark and you start to lose 
hope.  Happiness is looking for the gifts, whichare always there,even when they
seem hidden.         

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"If you have just a little fun today, it's a sign that maybe the future 
           will hold even more fun for you.  Fun isn't just fun - it's hope. 
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"The miserable man isunhappy every day; but the cheerful man 
         enjoys a constantfeast.    

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If you want others to behappy, practice compassion; if you
       want to be happy, practice compassion!
                                                                                - Mary Stewbeck
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The first recipe of happiness- avoid too lengthy meditations on
      the past.
                                                                                - Andre Maurois
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"That is happiness-  to be dissolved into something complete
       and great."
                                                                           - Willa Cather
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"The more we express ourgratitude to God for our blessings, 
        the more he will bring to our mindother blessings. The more
       we are aware of to be grateful for, thehappier we become."
                                                                           - Ezra Taft Benson
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"If I feel depressed, Igo to work.  Work is always an antidote to
       depression."
                                                                       - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Happiness is the bestmedicine.
                                                                                          
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Life is a matter of passingthe time enjoyably.  There may be other 
      things in life, but I've been too busy passing mytime enjoyably 
      to think very deeply about them.
                                                                                          - Peter Cook
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Make one person happy each dayand in forty years you will have
      made 14,600 human beings happy for a little timeat least.
                                                                    - Charles Wiley
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When you finally allowyourself to trust joy and embrace it,
      you will find you dance with everything.
                                                                               - Emanuel
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Open your arms and welcomethe joy of today!

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The most wasted of all daysis one without laughter.
                                                                           - E E. Cummings
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Don't waste a minute beingunhappy.  If one window closes - run
       to the next window - or break down a door.

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True happiness arises in the first place from enjoyment of oneself.
                                                                                   - Joseph Addition
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The aim of life is to live andto live means to be aware - joyously,
      drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
                                                                                   - Henry Miller
                                                                                   
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To be happy, do not add toyour possessions, but subtract from
       your desires.
                                                                                   
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Live with your whole beingall the days of your life.  Your reward will
       be true happiness.
                                                                                   - Rebecca Thomas Shane
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Cheerfulness keeps up a kindof daylight in the mind and fills it with
        a steady and perpetual serenity.
                                                                                   - Joseph Addison
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To live long and achievehappiness, cultivate the art of  radiating
       happiness.
                                                                                   - Malcolm Forbes
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The secret ofhappiness is not in doing what one likes to do,
      but in liking what one has todo.  
                                                                                   - James Barrie
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Looking forward to thingsis half the pleasure of them.
                                                                                  - Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Cultivate caring andgenerosity.  Happiness is the natural state of 
     a loving heart.

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The real joy of life is inits play.  Play is anything we do for the joy and
     love of doing it, apart from any profit,compulsion, or sense of duty.
     It is the real joy of living.
                                                                                               - Walter Rauschbusch
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Perceive and rejoice that life is abundant, that beauty and goodness
       are amply available . . . thatyour happiness is in your hands.
                                                                                    - Paul Hodges
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To love others makes us happy.

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Happiness is a grateful spirit, an optimistic attitude, and a
     heart full of love.
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 The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.  It is not
     that we seize them, but they seize us.
                                                                                       - Ashley Montagu     
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Even if happiness forgets youa little bit, never completely forget 
     about it.
                                                                                 - James Prevert
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Happy people roll with the punches.  They know from experience that
     everything changes.  Today's good fortune mayvanish tomorrow, 
     today's crises may turn out to be tomorrow's goodfortune.
     
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To pursue joy is to lose it.  The only way to get it is to follow steadily
     the path of duty, without thinking of joy, andthen, like sheep, it 
     comes most surely, unsought.
                                                                                 - A. Marc Lauren
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Happiness does not consist in things, but in the relish we have of
       them .. .
                                                                          - Francois duc de la Rochefoucald
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Once a happy thought gets started, you can't help but feel 
       warm-hearted.

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To be happy with simple pleasures is no simple matter.
   
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You cannot be thankful and unhappy at the same time.
   
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You don't have to know how tosing, it's feeling as though you want
    to that makes the day happy and successful.
                                                                                                 - Monica Crane
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What a wonderful life I'vehad.  I only wish I had realized it sooner.
                                                                                                 - Collette
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Happinessis really a deep harmonious inner satisfaction and approval.
                                                                                             - Francis Wilshire

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Happiness is good health and abad memory
                                                                   - Ingrid Bergman
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It's the little momentsthat make life big.

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Everyone is responsible fortheir own joy.

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Happiness is not a state toarrive at, but a manner of traveling.
      
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The secret of happiness iscuriosity.
                                                                                      -Norman Douglas
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The best way for a person tohave happy thoughts is to count  his
    blessings not his cash.

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Seize the humor of the moment.

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What sunshine is toflowers, smiles are to humanity.  They are trifles,
    to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway, the good theydo is
    inconceivable.

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Joyfulness keeps the heart andface young.  A good laugh 
       makes better friends with ourselves andeverybody around.
                                                                               -Orison Marden
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Happiness is a thing to bepracticed, like a violin.
 
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Cheerfulness is the atmospherein which all things thrive.

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The plain fact is that humanbeings are happy only when they are
     striving for something worthwhile.

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A certain simplicity of livingis usually necessary to happiness.
                                                                                       - Henry D. Chapin
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Finding fun in simple ways makes the happiest days.

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A happy heart makes a cheerful face.
                                                                                        - Proverbs 15:13
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Always remember toforget the things that made you sad,
      butnever forget to remember the things that made you glad.  
                                                                                          - Victor Borge
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Enjoyyour life without comparing it to others.
                                                                                         - Condobcet
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Iam not fully dressed until I adorn myself with a smile.

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May you be truly blessed toalways glitter with a radiance that shines
      from deep within you.
                                                                                      - Barbara Becker Holstein
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 Quoteson Happiness:

Live wholeheartedly. Be surprised!
          Give thanksand praise!
          Then you willdiscover the fullness of your life. 
                                                                  -Brother David Steindl Rase
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Euphoriais a blissful feeling that everything is coming up roses - 
        usually the feeling thatcomes when everything is going your 
        way and you are supremely contented with your  life.

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Always laugh whenyou can, it is cheap medicine.  Merriment  -
        it is the sunny side of existence.
                                                                                        - Lord  Bryon
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The good we dotoday becomes the happiness of tomorrow.    
                        

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I'm going to be happy today,
    Though the skies may be cloudy and gray
No matter what may come my way
    I'm going to be happy today.
                                              - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The true secret ofhappiness lies in taking a genuine  interest 
        in all the details of daily life and elevating them toan art.
                                                                                       - William Morris
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The joyfulpeople are those who are generous and kind,
The miserable people are thosewho are selfish & unforgiving.

Theproblem solvers are those whose lives are powered by  faith & optimism.
The problem people are thosewhose lives are drained by  doubts & pessimism.

The winnersare those who learn to take full responsibility for their actions.
The losers are those who blameothers for their failures.

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A thankfulheart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent
        of all other virtues
                                                                                            - Cicero
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HappinessQuotations:

The voluntarypath to cheerfulness, if your spontaneous 
       cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and
       speak as if cheerfulness were already  there.

To feel brave,act as if you were brave, use all your will to that
        end and courage will very likely replace fear.

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 The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic-type person
       and the happy, normal person is thedifference between get and
       give.

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  Blessed is he whohaslearned to laugh at himself for he shall never
        cease to be entertained.
                                                                                         - John Boswell
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  Happinessis like a potato salad  -  when shared with others - 
        it's a picnic.
       
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Happiness is abutterfly, which when pursued, is just out of grasp.
        But if you sit down quietly, may alight uponyou.
                                                                              - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
                                                                                    - Joseph W. Krutch
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Life can beone satisfaction after another if we let it.
                                                                                        - John Schindler
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Happiness isintrinsic.  It's an internal thing.  When you build it
        intoyourself, no external circumstances cantake it away.

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Nothing has tohappen for me to feel good!  I feel good because
        I'm alive!  Life is a gift, and I revel in it.
                                                                                      - Tony Robbins
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     Happinesscomes from counting our blessings, appreciating little things - a
flower by a stream, seagulls circling over the ocean, laughter of littlechildren,
a call from a friend, a challenge met.  The "happiness quotes"above gives us
some insights into the essence of happiness.  Happiness comes from celebrating
themoment -not waiting for all our problems to be solved.  Happiness comes 
fromcultivating a thankful heart.  

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