Harness the Power of the Science of Happiness
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Master the Art and Science of True Happiness quotes
1. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
2. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
3. “The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell
4. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
5. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
6. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” – Epictetus
7. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway
9. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.” – Goldie Hawn
10. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
11. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
12. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” – Albert Einstein
13. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
14. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
15. “We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” – David C. Hill
16. “Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.” – Deepak Chopra
17. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” – Mark Twain
18. “Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.” – Valerie Bertinelli
19. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
20. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
22. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
23. “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
24. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
25. “True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
26. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
27. “True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.” – Joseph Addison
28. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” – Carrie Jones
29. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
30. “There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” – Lady Blessington
31. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” – Benjamin Disraeli
32. “Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” – J. Petit Senn
33. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
34. “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” – Charlotte Bronte
35. “In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?” – Leslie Caron
36. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle
37. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” – John Milton
38. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama
39. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
40. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.” – Anne Frank
41. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
42. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
43. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
44. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” – Mark Twain
45. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
46. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
47. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
48. “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” – Democritus
49. “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” – Epictetus
50. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” – L. M. Montgomery
51. “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
52. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
53. “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell
54. “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
55. “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” – William Feather
56. “If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton
57. “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” – Hosea Ballou
58. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – Robert Frost
59. “Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
60. “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” – George Bernard Shaw
61. “The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” – André Maurois
62. “Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Hermann Hesse
63. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
64. “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” – Rose Lane
65. “All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.” – Horace Friess
66. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
67. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison
68. “Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.” – Thomas Jefferson
69. “Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
70. “A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” – Bernard de Fontenelle
Chart Your Course Happiness and Mental Health Mastery quotes
71. “Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” – Adam Ant
72. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” -J.K. Rowling
73. “It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.” -Steve Maraboli
74. “What mental health needs are more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close
75. “I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.” – Jonathan Harnisch
76. “Mental health is not a destination but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer
77. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green
78. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
79. “It’s okay to feel unstable. It’s okay to disassociate. It’s okay to hide from the world. It’s okay to need help. It’s okay not to be okay. Your mental illness is not a personal failure.” – Forhad khan
80. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha
81. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
82. “The strongest people are those who win battles we know nothing about.” – Unknown
83. “Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.” – Diane Abbott
84. “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” – Bill Clinton
85. “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell
86. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
87. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” – Lemony Snicket
88. “Sometimes self-care is exercise and eating right. Sometimes it’s spending time with loved ones or taking a nap. And sometimes, it’s watching an entire season of TV in one weekend while you lounge around in your pyjamas. Whatever soothes your soul.” – Nanea Hoffman
89. “The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is, you don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it.” – Demi Lovato
90. “It’s okay to not be okay all the time.” – Unknown
91. “If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” -Russell Wilson
92. “The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.” – Stefan Molyneux
93. “Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.” – Lisa Olivera
94. “The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.” – Tiffany Madison
95. “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” – Alfred Adler
96. “Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay
97. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close
98. “I wish people could understand that the brain is the most important organ of our body. Just because you can’t see mental illness like you could see a broken bone, doesn’t mean it’s not as detrimental or devastating to a family or an individual.” – Demi Lovato
99. “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter
100. “Our mental health is a priority. Your happiness is an essential. Your self-care is a necessity.” – Unknown
101. “To think too much is a disease.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
102. “Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it.” – Charles Bukowski
103. “You alone get to choose what matters and what doesn’t. The meaning of everything in your life has precisely the meaning you give it.” – Ryan Holiday
104. “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” – Charles Bukowski
105. “Not all wounds are visible.” – Unknown
106. “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” – Erik Erikson
107. “Take your time healing, as long as you want. Nobody else knows what you’ve been through. How could they know how long it will take to heal you.” – Abertoli
108. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
109. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” – Robert Tew
110. “You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person’. It makes you human.” – Lori Deschene
111. “Healing isn’t about changing where you are; it’s about changing your relationship to where you are.” – Stephen Levine
112. “We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.” – R.M. Drake
113. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
114. “It’s often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.” – Susan Polis Schutz
115. “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” – Matt Haig
116. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” – Walter Anderson
117. “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” – Erik Erikson
118. “Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer
119. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” – Joubert Botha
120. “Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.” – Rita Schiano
121. “The only thing more exhausting than being depressed is pretending that you’re not.” – Farhad
122. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” – Lemony Snicket
123. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green
124. “Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” – Adam Ant
125. “The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.” – Juliette Lewis
126. “The acknowledgment of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.” – Stefan Molyneux
127. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J.K. Rowling
128. “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
129. “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” – Alfred Adler
130. “In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
131. “The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battles we know nothing about.” – Unknown
132. “You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.” – Julian Seifter
133. “Sometimes, mental illness is terrifying because you feel like you’re losing control of your mind and nothing makes sense. It’s like watching yourself on autopilot and having little to no control.” – Farhad
134. “I cannot stand the words “Get over it”. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK.” – Beau Taplin
135. “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” – William James
136. “Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter
137. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” – Audre Lorde
138. “Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” – Christopher Germer
139. “There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone’s business.” – Vikram Patel
140. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
141. “A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.” – Kate Middleton
142. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
143. “Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.” – Nathaniel Branden
144. “You are not your depression. You are the observer of your depression.” – Matt Haig
145. “Mental illness is not a choice… But recovery is.” – Forhad
146. “People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways you’re hurting.” – Emm Roy
147. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
148. “Just because you think you’re worthless doesn’t make it true.” – Farhad
149. “Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.” – Rick Warren
150. “The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.” – J.K. Rowling
Happiness and Environment The Secret Duo for Joyful Living quotes
1. “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir
2. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – William Shakespeare
4. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” – Albert Einstein
5. “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” – Henry David Thoreau
6. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir
7. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs
8. “The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” – Lady Bird Johnson
9. “We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.” – William Hazlitt
10. “To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.” – Jane Austen
11. “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
12. “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau
13. “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” – John Keats
14. “Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.” – Standing Bear
15. “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
16. “There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” – Rachel Carson
17. “For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.” – Martin Luther
18. “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker
19. “I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.” – Emma Goldman
20. “Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein
21. “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” – Henry David Thoreau
22. “The world is but a canvas to our imagination.” – Henry David Thoreau
23. “The wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.” – Nancy Wynne Newhall
24. “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.” – Lord Byron
25. “If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh
26. “The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
27. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” – William Shakespeare
28. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
29. “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” – Gary Snyder
30. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
31. “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” – Pedro Calderon de la Barca
32. “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.” – Herman Hesse
33. “The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth
35. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke
36. “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
37. “There is no better designer than nature.” – Alexander McQueen
38. “Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.” – Henry David Thoreau
39. “An understanding of the natural world and what’s in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.” – David Attenborough
40. “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.” – William Shakespeare
41. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson
42. “In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” – Aristotle
43. “It is in the still silence of nature where one will find true bliss.” – Unknown
44. “Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.” – Jimmie Davis
45. “Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
46. “Leave the roads… take the trails.” – Pythagoras
47. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” – Robin Williams
48. “The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” – George Santayana
49. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
50. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz
Happiness and Relationships: The Undeniable Connection quotes
1. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan50. “One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.” – Robert Byrd
