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  Once we reach adulthood, it’s not hard to see that life is full of ups and downs. What’s truly hard is finding happiness in the midst of these circumstances and maintaining a mindset that will help us overcome them.
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While reading does not make one happy, it can help expose us to information that will enable us to cultivate a mindset of happiness. Here are 30 quotes to refresh your mind and spur you to be happy even in difficult times.
  1. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza
  2. Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  4. Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris
  5. Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. – Ayn Rand
  6. Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. – Alain De Botton
  7. The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. – William Morris
  8. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan
  9. People should find happiness in the little things, like family. – Amanda Bynes
  10. Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle
  11. As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. – Andrew Delbanco
  12. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza
  13. Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin
  14. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant
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  1. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell
  2. “A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” – Bernard de Fontenelle
  3. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. – Buddha
  4. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.  – C. JoyBell C.
  5. Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference. – Naval Ravikant
  6. Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things. – Maxime Lagacé
  7. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown
  8. Happiness is a state where nothing is missing. – Naval Ravikant
  9. Happiness is a function of accepting what is. – Werner Erhard
  10. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan
  11. People should find happiness in the little things, like family. – Amanda Bynes
  12. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza
  13. Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin
  14. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. = Immanuel Kant
  15. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell
  16. Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
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This article was first published on 24th May 2021

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My name is Samuel Okoruwa. I am an ardent researcher, reading is life and writing is fun.

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