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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness

Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking Happiness

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

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking Happiness

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

— J.M. Barrie
Happiness

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

— Alexandre Dumas
Happiness

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness

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

— Mark Twain
Happiness

All happiness depends on courage and work.

— Honoré de Balzac
Courage & Strength Happiness

The earth laughs in flowers.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

— Jane Austen
Happiness

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

— Robert Frost
Happiness

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

— Stephen Chbosky
Inspirational Life Happiness

Name one hero who was happy."I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back."You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward."I can't.""I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret.""Tell me." I loved it when he was like this."I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it.""Why me?""Because you're the reason. Swear it.""I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes."I swear it," he echoed.We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned."I feel like I could eat the world raw.

— Madeline Miller
Love Happiness

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

— Marcus Aurelius
Happiness

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

— Ayn Rand
Happiness

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.