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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“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” -Samuel Johnson
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“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.” -Jacques Yves Cousteau
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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” -Langston Hughes
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“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.” -Robert Baden-Powell
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“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.” -Paramahansa Yogananda
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“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” -Harold Kushner
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“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.” -Sivananda
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“I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness.” -Kanye West
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“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.” -Andre Maurois
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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” -Jane Austen
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“Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.” -Marquis de Sade
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“I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.” -Lord Byron
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“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.” -Honore de Balzac
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“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.” -John Ruskin
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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” -Ingrid Bergman
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“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.” -George A. Sheehan
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“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.” -Virginia Woolf
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“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.” -David Sarnoff
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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” -Francis Bacon
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“Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” -Spike Milligan
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“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” -Bo Derek
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“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” -Heraclitus
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“I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.” -Taylor Swift
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“My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.” -Suze Orman
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“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.” -Anton Chekhov
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“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.” -Anthony Hopkins
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“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” -Thucydides
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“A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.” -George Eliot
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“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” -Joan Rivers
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“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Happiness is the natural flower of duty.” -Phillips Brooks
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“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.” -Christian Nestell Bovee
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“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” -Saint Augustine
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“The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” -Zhuangzi
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“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!” -William Hazlitt
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“No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.” -Prem Rawat
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“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.” -Epictetus
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“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.” -Richard Bach
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“When ambition ends, happiness begins.” -Thomas Merton
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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” -Bertrand Russell
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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.” -Blaise Pascal
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“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” -Immanuel Kant
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“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.” -Sigmund Freud
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“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” -Guillaume Apollinaire
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“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.” -William Blake
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“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.” -William S. Burroughs
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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.” -Aldous Huxley
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“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.” -Denis Waitley
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“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.” -Victor Hugo
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“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” -George Orwell
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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.” -William James
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“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” -Karl Marx
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“I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” -Nana Mouskouri
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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” -Wayne Gretzky
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“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.” -Maria Montessori
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“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .” -Dale Carnegie
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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” -Leo Tolstoy
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“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” -George Burns
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“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.” -Daniel Boone
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“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.” -Thomas Paine
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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” -Dante Alighieri
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“Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.” -Napoleon Hill
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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.” -Chanakya
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“Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.” -Plato
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“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” -Henry Ford
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“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.” -Abdul Kalam
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“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” -Carl Jung
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“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.” -Paulo Coelho
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“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.” -Charlie Chaplin
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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The happiness of society is the end of government.” -John Adams
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“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” -Albert Schweitzer
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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” -Bill Vaughan
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“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” -William Butler Yeats
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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.” -Pablo Picasso
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“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.” -Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.” -Nelson Mandela
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“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” -Aristotle
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“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.” -Helen Keller
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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
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“God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.” -Billy Graham
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“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” -Confucius
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“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” -Dalai Lama
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“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” -Euripides
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“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” -C. S. Lewis
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“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” -Democritus
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” -Kevyn Aucoin
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“Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” -George Washington
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“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.” -William Shakespeare
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“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
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“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” -William Morris
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“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
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“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.” -Jose Marti
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“If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.” -Leon Kass
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“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.” -Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.” -Joseph Roux
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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.” -F. H. Bradley
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“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.” -Andrei Platonov
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“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.” -Booth Tarkington
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“Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.” -Frank McCourt
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“The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” -William Dean Howells
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“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.” -Alfred de Musset
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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.” -Jim Rohn
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“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.” -George Sand
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“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.” -Sarah McLachlan
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“People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.” -Lucinda Williams
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“Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.” -Benjamin Spock
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“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.” -Denis Diderot
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“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” -Ernest Dimnet
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“Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.” -Sam Levenson
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“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.” -Austin O’Malley
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“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.” -John Dryden
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“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.” -Alphonse Karr
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“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.” -Linus Pauling
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“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.” -Ben Jonson
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“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.” -Anatole France
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“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” -David Lee Roth
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“Happiness isn’t something you experience it’s something you remember.” -Oscar Levant
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“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” -Desiderius Erasmus
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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” -Agnes Repplier
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“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.” -Arnold Bennett
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“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.” -David Brainerd
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“Desire is individual. Happiness is common.” -Julian Casablancas
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“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.” -Ernie Banks
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“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” -J. D. Salinger
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“Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.” -Malcolm Forbes
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“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” -Alexandre Dumas
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“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” -Douglas William Jerrold
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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” -Carl Sandburg
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“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” -Maurice Chevalier
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“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.” -Leo Rosten
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“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” -Sydney J. Harris
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