Quotes about happiness
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C. S. Lewis1898–1963Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold (1956), Pt. 1, VII (Psyche)Think of all the beauty that’s still left in and around you, and be happy.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- GBGeorge Washington Burnap1802–1859Often credited to Joseph Addison
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Marita in Ch. 11You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
Albert Camus1913–1960“Intuitions” (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)
