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Quotes and statements from around the world about a meaningful and happy life, and how to stay happy

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Quotes from The Cape Verde Islands to the US

Happiness quotes & statements from Africa

Happiness quotes & statements from Africa

Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contentment

 
Are you going to bed? Put your slippers crosswise on top of one another under your bed. It will bring you luck and happiness - Cape Verde Islands
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared - Africa & Europe

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared - Africa & Europe

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared

Said by

  • It is said to be an old African saying
  • Sir Philip Sidney wrote it in his book 'Aphorisms'  in the 15th century."Happiness is a sunbeam, that may pass through 1,000 bosoms without losing a single particle of its original ray; nay when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. Happiness is not perfected until it is shared."

Variations

  • Happiness is never perfect until is shared with someone else
  • Happiness is not perfect, until it is shared
  • Happiness is only real when shared

 

 

 

Have you lost something? Spit in your hand and watch where the drops go. That is where you will find it - Eritrea
Sing a lot, and it will be beautiful weather - Eritrea
Throw rose petals after a wedding. It will bring the married couple luck - Morocco
When you peel an orange and the peel stays in one piece, you will get lucky - Tunisia
Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contention (the twelve elements of contentment) - Africa

Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contention (the twelve elements of contentment) - Africa

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Quotes & statements from around Africa by country and contention (the twelve elements of contentment)

Self-awareness & Self-insight

  • We are what our thinking makes us: Nigeria.
  • Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand: Guinea.
  • Those who are happy at home should remain at home.

Independency & Steadfastness

  • Examine what is said, not him who speaks: Egypt.

Limitlessness & Freedom

  • Happiness often sneaks through your door when you left the door open.
  • Dance even if the hump on your back does not allow you.

Usefulness & Meaning

  • Ubuntu: I am a person through other people. (Zulu)
    • Desmond Tutu said: “One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu, the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. We believe that a person is a person through other persons.. It is a form of humanism which can be expressed
    • "I am, like because of who we all are." Ubuntu signifies emphatically that: “The life of another person is at least as valuable as one’s own,” and that “Respect for the dignity of every person is integral to this concept.”
    • Source

Experience & Feeling alive

  • Those who are absent are always wrong: Congo.

Helpfulness & Attentiveness

  • Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Engagement & Sense of surroundings

  • Happiness is like a perfume, you cannot pour it all on others without allowing a few drops to fall on yourself.
  • The chameleon changes color to match the earth; the earth doesn’t change colors to match the chameleon: Senegal.

Goal Orientation & Sense of perspective

  • The big game often appears when the hunter has given up the hunt for the day.
  • The chameleon looks in all directions before moving: Uganda.
  • Anxious about the shoe, but careless about the foot.

Balance & Stability

  • If you are building a house and a nail breaks, do you stop building, or do you change the nail?
  • Who swims never sinks.

Result awareness & Positivity

  • There are no shortcuts to the top of the palm tree: Cameroon.

Connectivity & Contacts

  • Lonely is one: Masai.
  • Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow.

Attention & Focus

  • Coffee and love taste best when hot: Ethiopia.
  • He who learns teaches: Ethiopia.
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Happiness quotes & statements from Europe

Happiness quotes & statements from Europe

Quotes & statements from all over Europe

Are you lost? A caterpillar in your hand will show you the way - Happiness quotes & statements from Spain
Give someone a bouquet of nine sorts of flowers and grasses. You will bring luck to the other person - Finland
Save the cork of a champagne bottle on New Year’s Eve. You will have the whole year of luck - Happiness quotes & statements from Italy

Save the cork of a champagne bottle on New Year’s Eve. You will have the whole year of luck - Happiness quotes & statements from Italy

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Save the cork of a champagne bottle on New Year’s Eve. You will have the whole year of luck.

When red underwear is gifted to you and you wear it on New Year’s Eve, it will bring luck the whole new year - Italy

You may make a wish when you see four identical numbers on a digital clock - Happiness quotes & statements of Denmark
You may make three wishes if you eat twelve grapes or twelve raisins at twelve o 'clock on New Year's eve. - Portugal
If you sit between two people who have the same name, you may make a wish - Russia
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Happiness quotes & statements from Latin America

Happiness quotes & statements from Latin America

Quotes & statements from Latin America

Throw white and yellow flowers in the sea. It will bring you luck! - Brazil
Is it raining? Put a broom upside down in your house. It will stop raining. - Surinam
When a bird poops on your head, it will bring you luck - Surinam
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Happiness quotes & statements from Asia

Happiness quotes & statements from Asia

Quotes and statements from Asia

Fold a thousand paper cranes, and you will be lucky - Japan
Is there a cockerel hanging above the door? It will bring you luck. - Thailand
Is your right eye twitching? You will receive a message of luck! - Indonesia
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Happiness quotes & statements from the U.S.

Happiness quotes & statements from the U.S.

Quotes & statements from the U.S.

Do you want to win a match? Clap hands with your teammates. The ‘High Five’ will bring you luck - USA
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Happiness quotes en statements from Holland (The Netherlands)

Happiness quotes en statements from Holland (The Netherlands)

Quotes en statements from Holland (The Netherlands)

Blow away the seeds of a dandelion in one breath. You may make a wish - The Netherlands
Did you find a coin? It will bring you luck - The Netherlands
Did you step in dog poo? It will bring you luck - The Netherlands
Did you hit the goalpost at football? You will win the next match - The Netherlands
Happiness quotes & statements gathered by contentment - The Netherlands

Happiness quotes & statements gathered by contentment - The Netherlands

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Quotes & statements from Holland by contention (the twelve elements of contentment) - The Netherlands

Self-awareness & Self-insight

  • what you say, is what you are.

Independency & Steadfastness

  • Sometimes I'm so independent I forget to listen to myself.
  • By 'Loesje' (a Dutch Quote community)

Limitlessness & Freedom

  • “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
  • “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
  • “I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
  • By 'Anne Frank' written during wartime while hiding.

Usefulness & Meaning

  • “No one has ever become poor by giving.”
  • By 'Anne Frank'

Experience & Feeling alive

  • Did you find a coin? It will bring you luck - The Netherlands.

Helpfulness & Attentiveness

  • Vragen staat vrij. It means it is your freedom to ask, you can always ask. The other person can always say no. When you want to help people, it is also best to ask, do they want help? What kind of help? Everything starts with a question. So many things can be done with a good heart, but the effect is gone, when your help doesnt fit.

Engagement & Sense of surroundings

  • Blow away the seeds of a dandelion in one breath. You may make a wish

Goal Orientation & Sense of perspective

  • Did you hit the goalpost at football? You will win the next match

Balance & Stability

  • Doe maar normaal, dan doe je al gek genoeg: Act normal, that is already crazy enough.

Result awareness & Positivity

  • Are we going Dutch? Everyone pays for themselves. It might not seem positive, but it connects with the Dutch believe in equality. In a way it is straightforward and clear, you pay what you order, so no need to be worried about your expenses. PS only when you divide the bill and the other person has ordered more expensive drinks or food. Just remember what you ordered and give it to the person who will pay. We have a thing called Tikkie or a possibility on any bank app to send a whatsapp message with a link so people can pay back easily. To me as a dutch person, it is positive and it is going towards your own results: saving money, if that is what you are after. 

Connectivity & Contacts

  • Wat gij niet wilt dat u geschiedt, doe dat ook een ander niet. ' Het rijmpje' komt uit de Lutherbijbel van 1545. It means don't do to others what you don't want to be done towards yourself. The rhyme (in dutch) is from the Lutherbible of 1545.

Attention & Focus

  • Did you step in dog poo? It will bring you luck.
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