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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
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"Man does not strive for happiness, only the Englishman does that."
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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."
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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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"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."
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"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."
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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."
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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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"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
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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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"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
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"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."
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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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"May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house."
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"Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness."
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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 a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."
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