“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
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Dalai Lama
12 quotes“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Albert Schweitzer
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Dale Carnegie
5 quotes“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”
Anton Chekhov
5 quotes“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Happiness is loving your enemies.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”