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21 Happiness quotes that will make you smile again

Nga Gentlewomen | Prill 2, 2017

If I ask you to rate your happiness from 1 to 10, what will be your score? According to the latest World Happiness Report, Americans ranked as the 13th happiest country in the world while Denmark ranked No. 1. Very often we’ll have to go through some downtimes. At our darkest moments, what we need most is some motivation and encouragement. Inspiring quotes can change your way of thinking and help you get away from negative emotions. If you, or your friends, are feeling lost, these quotes will give you a hand of help:

“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.” – Chinese Proverb
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”– Helen Keller
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”– Aristotle
“Happiness is acceptance.”– Unknow
“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”– Joseph Campbell
“Happiness is acceptance.”–Unknown
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”– James M. Barrie
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”–Confucius
What ever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”– Rose Lane
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”– Albert Ellis
“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
“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”– Buddha
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”– Andre Maurois
There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”–Marquis de Condorcet
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”–Mary Lou Retton
“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.”– Dalai Lama/ Lifehack