Do You Know These 15 Happiness Quotes?

Maybe your idea of happiness is wrong!

Who doesn’t want to be happy?

Happiness is a state — a feeling of contentment and pleasure. It is more than joy, ecstasy, or bliss. In Positive Psychology research, happiness termed as subjective wellbeing.

Simply speaking, we can say happiness means — being satisfied with life, feeling positive emotions, and enjoyment. And it comes with physical, mental, and spiritual soundness.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle said, happiness depends on ourselves. To him, it is the central purpose of human life and a goal in itself. He considered happiness as a final end or goal that encompasses the totality of one’s life.

Most of the time, we mistakenly equate happiness with money and wealth. But can the central purpose of life be only earning money and accumulating wealth?

Let’s see what the thinkers think. Maybe the following quotes can change the way you used to see happiness.

Let’s begin.

Happiness quotes

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.― Leo Tolstoy

2.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. — Gautama Buddha

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.― Dalai Lama XIV

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ― Aristotle

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Happiness [is] only real when shared. ― Jon Krakauer

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.― Roy T. Bennett

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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. ― Mark Twain

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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. ― Steve Maraboli

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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. ― Nikos Kazantzakis

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Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.― Roy T. Bennett

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It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ― Dale Carnegie

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If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Whoever is happy will make others happy. ― Anne Frank

Happy thoughts

We see that no great minds equate happiness with money or wealth. To them, it is to serve others. That is the only secret. So, change your mindset and attitude.

Start helping others. Live in the present moment. Remember, happiness is only real when shared.

Have a happy life!

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