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Quotes about happiness
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. (Bates Alan)
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. (Bates Alan)
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. (Bates Alan)
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most. (Bates Alan)
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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. (Bates Alan)
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. (Bates Alan)
We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. (Bates Alan)
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. (Bates Alan)
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. (Bates Alan)
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. (Bates Alan)
Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe. (Bates Alan)
What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement. (Bates Alan)
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. (Bates Alan)
Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others. (Bates Alan)
What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? (Bates Alan)
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet. (Bates Alan)
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness (Bates Alan)
Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy. (Bates Alan)
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. (Bates Alan)
As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! (Bates Alan)
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. (Bates Alan)
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others. (Bates Alan)
The happier the moment the shorter. (Bates Alan)
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. (Bates Alan)
Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. (Bates Alan)
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