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Happiness Quotes
"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."
171
"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."
145
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
142
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
139
"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."
129
"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
127
"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."
126
"Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that."
118
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
111
"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."
111
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
101
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
101
"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."
97
"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."
93
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
93
"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."
89
"May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house."
81
"Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness."
77
"I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland."
77
"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
72
"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
71
"It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations."
69
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
65
"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
65
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
59
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
57
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
56
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
53
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
53
"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."
51
"This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth."
51
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