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Happiness Quotes
"Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others."
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
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"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
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"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
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"To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness."
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"But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud."
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"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
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"Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life."
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"Happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you."
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"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."
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"Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found."
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"No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind."
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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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"Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness."
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"It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil."
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"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."
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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
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"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
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"Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get lost.” Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure-especially during the years of adolescence-is an almost irresistible force."
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"Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception."
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"It seems so simple now, but it took me a long time to figure out that happiness is experienced when we finally give ourselves permission to let go of the things that make us sad."
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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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"By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite."
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"You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness."
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"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
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"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."
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"Get this through your head - you are not responsible for other people's happiness."
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"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it."
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"Let us look around with a compassionate heart to feel and see the deepest joy of life."
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"True happiness is devoid of any illusion."
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"Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced."
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