“Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” Christian Dior.
“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” Charlotte Brontë
“Happiness leaves such slender records; it is the dark days that are so voluminously documented; but we see no reason to add to the darkness now. Happiness is precious, beyond all other riches, there to be cherished, however fleeting, and in finding the courage to be happy, we may also find the strength to be true to ourselves.” Truman Capote.
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” John Barrymore
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”. Mahatma Gandhi
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” Oscar Wilde
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” Benjamin Franklin
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Thomas Jefferson
“Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness”. George Bernard Shaw
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus
“I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness”. Ian K. Smith
“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.” Anthony Storr
“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy”. Philip Sidney
“You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can’t run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are”. Dale Archer
“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind”. Alice Meynell
“I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.” Marc Webb
“We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does”. Mary Gordon
“My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.” Evangeline Lilly
“Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.” John Mason Good
“There’s a happiness that comes from writing that I won’t live without”. Maria Semple
“I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families”. Steve Kerr
“I think money helps us. It helps us. It’s our – it’s our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn’t buy you health”. Victoria Osteen
“The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony”. V. S. Pritchett
“Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.” Rachel Field
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