More Happiness Quotes
(Happiness Quotes - Page 10)
Here's another of my pages of happiness quotes for your enjoyment. It includes a Thomas Jefferson quote, and an Albert Camus quote too.
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D.H. Mondfleur
The only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was - or wasn't.Comment: Notice how children naturally express joy and happiness – until they are conditioned by others to start losing that innocent state of being. Happiness is the essential nature of human beings. It's just our mental and emotional responses to outside influences, and the resultant stresses, that block its flow.
Freya Stark
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.Comment: As suggested for an earlier quote, personal integrity is essential for happiness. One must live one’s own truth, or there will be inner conflict that prevents the full experience of sustained happiness. I'd like to extend this quote to say: There can be no happiness if the things we think, say or do are different out of harmony with the inner voice of our broader self.
Robert Brault
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.Comment: This quote refers to enjoyment, an expression of happiness.
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Leslie Caron
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?Comment: Believe me, you’ll know! I haven’t had 'great unhappiness' in my life, but I have nevertheless known and experienced happiness, and even amazing joy and bliss.
William R. Inge
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.Comment: Inge’s observations are interesting. They echo the words of many wise people that ‘things’, ‘people’ and other external factors are not the source of happiness. Some people just are happy, while others are not ... ... yet.
Guilaume Apollinaire
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Comment: This link gives some interesting thoughts about the
pursuit of happiness
.
Author Unknown
Some pursue happiness, others create it.Comment: And yet others unlock it from within.
Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?Comment: Yes, that’s certainly part of it. The harmony between a man and the life he leads facilitates the mind-body system in allowing the inner happiness to flow into experience in day-to-day living. And it's part of the
master key to happiness
: Self-alignment.
Happiness Quotes Page 10
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.Comment: Yes, this is part of what happiness is - the absence of non-happy situations. However, happiness is a far more positive experience than simply the lack of a pained body or a troubled mind.
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