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Happiness Quotes
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
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"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."
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"Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool."
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"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."
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"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."
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"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
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"There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?' - Aidan Bedwyn."
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"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
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"I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether profit be regarded."
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"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels."
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"One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing."
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"Do what makes YOU happy. Focus on what brings YOU joy. Appreciate and do more things that make YOU smile. Live your life for yourself. You matter! You count! You're deserving of true happiness! This is YOUR life. Live it to the fullest! Live life with no regrets."
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"Happiness is not a thing - it is a feeling, a way of joyful living and being. It comes from inner fulfilment and appreciating the world you live in."
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"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
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"Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon."
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"We will never find the perfect job, relationship, or situation. What we can do is search for happiness. Our ideals in life are set by others, and it's because they haven't mastered the art of the happiness search."
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"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."
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"Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize its very nature, if we remain guilelessly confined in a state of woeful unawareness or in a no-man's-land of emotions. In their dogged and obstinate quest for the zenith of happiness, many forget to take pleasure in the small things of everyday and, thus, become disgruntled and depressed instead, which leads them to a mire of gloom. ['C'est quand le bonheur ']"
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"For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life."
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"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
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"When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you."
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"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
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"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."
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"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."
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"It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more."
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"The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection."
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