Marcel Proust
Novelist
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
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438 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have."
Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
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"If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake."
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
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"True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed."
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"Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain."
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"Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
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"If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else."
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"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
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"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."
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"Whoever is happy will make others happy."
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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
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"I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
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"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."
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"You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
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"Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want."
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