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Happiness Quotes
"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."
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"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."
50
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
43
"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."
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"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
31
"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
30
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
30
"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
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"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."
26
"May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house."
23
"Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness."
21
"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."
19
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
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"I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to."
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"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
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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."
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"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."
16
"Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat."
15
"Learn to be happy with yourself first, then happiness will follow you everywhere."
15
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
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"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
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"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."
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