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Happiness Quotes

"May all beings have happy minds."
Buddha
"Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker."
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."
Buddha
"One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond."
Buddha
"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship."
Buddha
"There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path."
Buddha
"If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow."
Buddha
"Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."
Muhammad Ali
"My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace."
Denzel Washington
"When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders."
Sun Tzu
"The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."
Sigmund Freud
"Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair."
Sigmund Freud
"Love and work... work and love, that's all there is."
Sigmund Freud
"The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty."
Theodore Roosevelt
"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."
Paulo Coelho
"Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy."
Paulo Coelho
"Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided."
Paulo Coelho
"I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival because life is the moment we’re living now."
Paulo Coelho
"After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing."
Paulo Coelho
"When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
Laozi