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The 50 Happiest Animals In The Entire World

It's hard to be down on the world when these guys are around.

50. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” -Abraham Lincoln

49. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” -Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

48. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Marthe Troly-Curtin

47. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” -Dalai Lama XIV

46. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.” -Audrey Hepburn

45. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” -Mark Twain

44. “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

43. “I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

42. “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” -Anne Frank

41. “Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections” -Bob Marley

40. "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." -Roald Dahl

39. “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” -Sadie Delany

38. “I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.” -David Foster Wallace

37. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

36. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust

35. “Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.” - حافظ

34. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” -Alice Walker

33. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will." -Epictetus

32. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” -J.M. Barrie

31. “I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.” -Oprah Winfrey

30. “My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

29. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.” -Leo Tolstoy

28. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it." -Thích Nhất Hạnh

27. “If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.” -Edith Wharton

26. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” -Charles M. Schulz

25. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” -Louisa May Alcott

24. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” -William James

23. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” -Oprah Winfrey

22. “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” -C.S. Lewis

21. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." -Mother Teresa

20. ‎”Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.” -Audre Lorde

19. “I do not think we have a 'right' to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.” -Marlene Dietrich

18. True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing." -Seneca

17. “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.

16. “I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.” -Audrey Hepburn

15. “Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.” -Albert Camus

14. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius

13. “Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.” -Pat Conroy

12. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet." -James Oppenheim

11. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald

10. “I'd far rather be happy than right any day.” -Douglas Adams

9. “I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.” -Kurt Vonnegut

8. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” -Robert Frost

7. “That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!” -Bill Watterson

6. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” -Aristotle

5. “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.” -Charlotte Bronte

4. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'" -Sylvia Plath

3. “For happiness is anyone and anything at all that’s loved by you.” – Charles Schulz

2. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” -Aristotle

1. “Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

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