Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Be yourself; everyone else is taken."
Being Happy quotes
Being Happy
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Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Writer, Aviator
"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
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"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."
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"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
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"Happiness is not by chance, but by choice."
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"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
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"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
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"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
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"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
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"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."
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"There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never."
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"Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved."
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"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."
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"The only joy in the world is to begin."
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"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
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"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill."
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"I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun."
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"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want."
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"There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it."
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