happiness
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘happiness’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.” -Francis Hutcheson
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“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.” -James Smithson
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“Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.” -Monica Edwards
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“The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.” -David Wilmot
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“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.” -Frederick Delius
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“What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness ’twill bring?” -Richard Owen Cambridge
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“In Hollywood, if you don’t have happiness, you send out for it.” -Rex Reed
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“On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!” -Chandler Massey
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“Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.” -Joyce Grenfell
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“Money cannot buy happiness.” -Annni-Frid Lyngstad
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“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.” -Lucan
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“Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.” -Chris Bailey
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“Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.” -Rachel Field
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“Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.” -Antonio Gala
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“No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.” -Charles Sumner
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“No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.” -Horatio Alger
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“Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.” -Samuel Chase
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“When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.” -George Porter
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“The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation it is understanding.” -Winifred Holtby
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“Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.” -Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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“The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.” -Heinrich Mann
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“Happiness comes from… some curious adjustment to life.” -Hugh Walpole
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“Life is full of happiness and tears be strong and have faith.” -Kareena Kapoor
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“I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.” -Alfred Day Hershey
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“The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.” -Harry Harrison
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“A good education is another name for happiness.” -Ann Plato
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“Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.” -Islom Karimov
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“I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.” -Marc Webb
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“The last part, the part you’re now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.” -Charles Van Doren
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“Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.” -Alice Meynell
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“The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn’t think he could do.” -Ring Lardner
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“We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness – not disaster – to human beings.” -Kenichi Fukui
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“Happiness is only real when shared.” -Christopher McCandless
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“And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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“I love being on stage. I’m completely, totally relaxed. It’s the only time in my life when I know where I am and what’s coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let’s just say happiness isn’t my default position. There are dark parts. I’m very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.”…