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Happiness Quotes
"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."
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"But the thing is, I didn't make my friends happy and they didn't make me happy. All we did was get stoned out of our minds. That didn't have anything to do with happiness."
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"I believe I may assert that they were really in possession of deep and growing happiness. It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering- and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not in the chief consideration in the other's thoughts."
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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."
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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!..."
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"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
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"While I was yearning for happiness I became happy."
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"Can you hold happiness? Can you drink it? Can you taste it? Can you touch it? Of course not, it is immaterial. So, stop looking for it in the material world! Happiness is experienced within; when we bridge the gap between what we want to experience and how we choose to behave."
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"Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do."
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"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
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"The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise."
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"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
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"To have more, you must genuinely thank more."
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"Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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"And he laughs. Not the heavy laughter from before. It's a great laugh. A deep laugh. One that makes my lips lift. Isaiah, the guy who an hour ago carried himself like a jungle predator, now has the content aura of a lazy cat bathing in the sun."
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"The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding."
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"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation."
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"Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it. This may not be true but he had believed it to be true for a long time and this summer they had experienced happiness for a month now and, already, in the nights, he was lonely for it before it had ever gone away."
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"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."
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"Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness."
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"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
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"Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy."
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"Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others."
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"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill."
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"Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever."
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"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
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"So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great."
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"Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory."
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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."
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"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man."
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"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness."
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"I do not subscribe to the abuse 'victim' or 'survivor' labelling mentality. I have experienced every kind of abuse imaginable and I am and always have been the most happy-go-lucky, positive and life affirming person around. Your labels do not serve you, so don't use them as an excuse to be miserable. You have a beautiful life to live, so accept the beauty and start living."
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
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