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Happiness Quotes
"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up."
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"It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it."
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"Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it."
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"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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"Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past Butler Library. It was dark, but the light inside illuminated the windows. Students were reading and working, and those lit windows gave me a wonderful, weightless feeling. I understood for the first time how happy I had been there - in the library."
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"The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others."
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"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning."
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"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness."
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"Now the need for seeking something outside will completely disappear. Once you are blissful by your own nature, your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness."
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"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."
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"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
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"See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
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"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."
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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."
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"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."
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"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."
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"I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about."
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"Unhappiness is the resultant of what you desire and happiness of what you don't."
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"Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it-maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream.So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words?Thought about it yet?Good.."
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"90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness."
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"He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret."
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"Vera had not sensed my approach. She was peering into the instrument and turning knobs with child-like seriousness and ineptitude. It was obvious that she had never used a microscope before. I stole closer to her, and then I said, "Boo!"She jerked her head away from the eyepiece."Hello," I said."You scared me to death," she said."Sorry," I said, and I laughed.These ancient games go on and on. It's nice they do."
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"Spread kindness, caring, and compassion and create your own paradise. Infuse it with joy and you've created heaven on earth."
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"The hidden keys of true happiness are individual responsibility and an incessant quest for joy."
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"The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness."
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"Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit."
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"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
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"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."
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"Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose."
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"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
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"I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half."
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