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Happiness Quotes
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
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"I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important."
75
"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."
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"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
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"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
56
"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."
55
"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
52
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
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"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."
48
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
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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."
47
"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
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"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
42
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
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"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
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"Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that."
34
"May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house."
32
"Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness."
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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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"I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland."
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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
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"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
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"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
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"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
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