Inspirational Happiness Quotations
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The Secret to Happiness
These happiness quotations will show you that happiness is a choice. The key to true happiness is to stop the futile pursuit of happiness. You don’t have to pursue your happiness. Waiting until something comes along to make you happy is like stumbling on happiness. Creating happiness is something you can decide to do. You can acheive happiness in any moment, even this one! There is 1 simple key to happiness – the secret of happy life: The key to happiness is that happiness comes from within. Here are some happiness quotations to help you choose happiness.
Happiness Quotes
====================================================Why is happiness a secret?
Why do we have to search for happiness?
==================================================== Unhappiness is a learned response.
Happiness is our natural state.
==================================================== Happy people remain happy in unhappy circumstances.
Happiness doesn’t come from what we get,
From anything outside ourselves,
From what happens or doesn’t happen to us.
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Happiness is a Choice
====================================================Where do we find happiness?
In ourselves.
==================================================== Happiness comes from our decision,
conviction, and determination to be happy.
==================================================== Happiness is a very secure path.
When we have no problems, we’re happy.
But even when we have problems,
We can still choose to be happy.
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Quotes About Happiness
====================================================If we wait for good things to happen to us
before we are willing to be happy,
then we have no control at all over our own happiness.
==================================================== How do we make ourselves happy?
How do we give birth to an emotion?
When you understand how important something is,
you are attracted to it.
When you understand how dangerous something is,
you fear it.
Understanding creates feelings.
Emotions are born from knowledge.
==================================================== What you spend time thinking about
is what you have strong feelings about.
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Secret of Happiness
====================================================So, what is the secret of unhappiness?
When we're unhappy we’re damaged.
Some our damage comes from how we were raised.
Some of our damage comes from our own choices.
==================================================== First we fail, then we learn from it.
If we were perfect, we’d be angels.
If we weren’t perfect and didn’t try to learn from our failures,
we’d be monsters.
==================================================== We find it hard to be as good as we could be.
We’re not sure God is pleased with us.
I am so small, so damaged, so weak,
and yet, to the Creator of the universe
it matters what I do?!
This is alone is incredible happiness!
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Quotes on Happiness
====================================================Simcha (happiness) is a mitzvah (a commandment from God),
Commandments can only be given to happy people. Why?
Unhappy people can’t listen. They can’t act.
==================================================== G-d will do great things for us. Why?
Because we are happy.
==================================================== You have to believe in G-d before He can talk to you.
If G-d cares about the universe,
He cares about every piece of it.
If God loves the Jewish people, He loves every Jew.
==================================================== The one who finds it hardest to be happy
is the one who needs to be happy the most.
==================================================== Adapted from a lecture by Rabbi Manis Friedman
18 February 2003 vol. 17.72
©2008 Rae Shagalov All rights reserved.
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