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Happiness Quotes

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"Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole."
John Irving
"Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole."
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"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."
Arthur Rubinstein
"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."
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"Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth."
Linda Chavez
"Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth."
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"It doesn't cost much to be Happy if the currency of your heart is the blowing of the breeze and the swaying of the trees."
R.V.M.
"It doesn't cost much to be Happy if the currency of your heart is the blowing of the breeze and the swaying of the trees."
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"Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho."
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"Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with ecstasy."
Ana Claudia Antunes
"Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with ecstasy."
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"When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium."
Gayle Forman
"When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium."
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"Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!..."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!..."
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"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves."
Ethel Percy Andrus
"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves."
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"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
C. S. Lewis
"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
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"Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work."
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
"Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work."
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"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery-air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."
Sylvia Plath
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery-air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."
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"No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind."
Charles Sumner
"No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind."
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"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants."
Jimmy Carter
"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants."
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"Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed."
Henry James Sumner Maine
"Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed."
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"If you make a decision that from here onward you will give the majority of your attention to happy thoughts, you will begin a process of purifying your body. Those happy thoughts will supply your body with the greatest health-booster you could possibly give it.There are endless excuses not to be happy. But if you put happiness off by saying "I'll be happy when..." you'll not only be delaying happiness for the rest of your life, you'll also be diminishing the health of your body. Happiness is your body's miracle elixir, so be happy NOW, no excuses!"
Rhonda Byrne
"If you make a decision that from here onward you will give the majority of your attention to happy thoughts, you will begin a process of purifying your body. Those happy thoughts will supply your body with the greatest health-booster you could possibly give it.There are endless excuses not to be happy. But if you put happiness off by saying "I'll be happy when..." you'll not only be delaying happiness for the rest of your life, you'll also be diminishing the health of your body. Happiness is your body's miracle elixir, so be happy NOW, no excuses!"
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"Some pursue happiness others create it."
Anonymous
"Some pursue happiness others create it."
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"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."
Hugo Black
"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."
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"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."
Joseph Roux
"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."
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"Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age."
Herman Hesse
"Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age."
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"Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in."
Dyan Cannon
"Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in."
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"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
Sophocles
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
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"For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."
Thomas Bulfinch
"For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."
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"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
William Ellery Channing
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
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"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower."
John Harrigan
"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower."
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"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
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"I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men."
Thomas Huxley
"I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men."
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"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."
William E. Gladstone
"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."
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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
Andre Gide
"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."
Lucan
"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."
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"You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"You act in love to be kind, be gentle and be peaceful."
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"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection."
Debra Messing
"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection."
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"No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls."
Horatio Alger
"No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls."
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"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."
Thornton Wilder
"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."
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"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
William Feather
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
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"Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun."
Robert Burton
"Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun."
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"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
Benjamin Spock
"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
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"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
Confucius
"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
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"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."
Joseph Addison
"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."
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"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance."
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"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
Bernard Meltzer
"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get."
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"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
George Orwell
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
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"Let happiness bloomIn the freshness of your mind,In the gentle wind of your thoughts.On the ground of kindness and compassion."
Debasish Mridha
"Let happiness bloomIn the freshness of your mind,In the gentle wind of your thoughts.On the ground of kindness and compassion."
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"Smile with joy."
Debasish Mridha
"Smile with joy."
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"Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you."
Aron Ralston
"Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you."
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"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so."
John Stuart Mill
"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so."
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"When I compare my Life with others who are less fortunate, I feel so blessed and grateful that I immediately stop complaining and start Living with Joy and Gratitude."
R.V.M.
"When I compare my Life with others who are less fortunate, I feel so blessed and grateful that I immediately stop complaining and start Living with Joy and Gratitude."
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"The seeds of happiness can grow from one thought, one idea, one simple change in focus."
Charles F. Glassman
"The seeds of happiness can grow from one thought, one idea, one simple change in focus."
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"To get everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the world of effects; it's just the result of thoughts. Think and bask in happy thoughts. Radiate the feelings of happiness and joy, and transmit that into the Universe with all of your might, and you will experience true heaven on earth."
Rhonda Byrne
"To get everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the world of effects; it's just the result of thoughts. Think and bask in happy thoughts. Radiate the feelings of happiness and joy, and transmit that into the Universe with all of your might, and you will experience true heaven on earth."
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"Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please."
Joseph Conrad
"Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please."
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