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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.
- All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza
- Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin
- Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris
- Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. – Ayn Rand
- 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
- The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. – William Morris
- The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan
- People should find happiness in the little things, like family. – Amanda Bynes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle
- 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
- All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza
- Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin
- Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant
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- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell
- “A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” – Bernard de Fontenelle
- 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
- 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.
- Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference. – Naval Ravikant
- Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things. – Maxime Lagacé
- One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown
- Happiness is a state where nothing is missing. – Naval Ravikant
- Happiness is a function of accepting what is. – Werner Erhard
- The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan
- People should find happiness in the little things, like family. – Amanda Bynes
- All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza
- Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin
- Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. = Immanuel Kant
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell
- Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
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