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There`s a certain essence to spring – especially March – that makes it charming. The weather is improving, so is your mood, and a surge of motivation just pops up out of nowhere as if a small walk on a sunny March day has the power to make things lively again. Maybe this is the reason they called March the International Month of Happiness. And, since March has 31 days, below are 31 quotes that can shift the way you think of happiness and how to attain it. Enjoy.
1. “One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.” ― Aristotle
2. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” ― Mark Twain
4. “All happiness depends on courage and work.” ― Honoré de Balzac
5. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln
6. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” ― Bertrand Russell
7. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Gandhi
8. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” ― Ayn Rand
9. “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ― Groucho Marx
10. “There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.” ― Jodi Picoult
11. You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.” ― Lauren Oliver
12. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus
13. “If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.” ― Edith Wharton
14. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ― John Lennon
15. “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ― George Burnham
16. “Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
17. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
18. “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
19. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” ― Chuck Palahniuk
20. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” ― W.P. Kinsella
21. “Happiness is only real when shared” ― Jon Krakauer
22. “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” ― Carlos Castaneda
23. “Happiness is health and a short memory.” ― Audrey Hepburn
24. “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” ― Max Ehrmann
25. “It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” ― Lucy Maud Montgomery
26. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” ― Roy T. Bennett
27. “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
28. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
29. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius
30. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ― Rita Mae Brown
31. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” ― Louisa May Alcott
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More on Happiness, here on GMP:
The Complete List of Secrets for Men and Women to Better Sex, Happiness and World Peace
In Relationships—Rocky or Not—Happiness is an Inside Job
Is Your Happiness as a Man Dependent on Relationships? — A Call for Submissions
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