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Happiness Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of…
- The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
- Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
- What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
- Things do not change; we change.
- There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to…
- You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
- The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- 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…
- The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows…
- The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
- My greatest skill has been to want but little.
- I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand…
- I love the broad margin to my life.
- What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.
- Sacrificing your happiness for the happiness of the one you love, is by far, the truest type of love.
- If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a…
More Happiness Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach