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Happiness Quotes
"Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration."
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"Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched."
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"The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding."
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"Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love."
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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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"People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly."
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"Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience."
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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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"You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness."
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"Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security."
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"Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people."
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"A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug."
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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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"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
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"Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality."
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"We are as happy as we think we are."
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"No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness."
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"Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow."
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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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"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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"Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community."
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"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it."
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"Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun!"
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"Pleasure is 'suffering' (vedna) and pain is distress as well. If pleasure is 'suffering', it cannot be considered a pleasure. If pleasure is enjoyed excessively, it becomes 'suffering'. How can it be considered a pleasure? These are all entanglements of those living in illusion [of the Self]. To live in the ocean of happiness and yet no dislike arises; that is known as true happiness."
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"I love to laugh. Especially in times of trouble and sadness. It helps us get through the hard times of life and is also an important part of all our relationships. Laughter is a gift from God that opens our hearts. Laughing heals our hearts and brings us together."
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"To be happy we must not be too concerned with others."
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"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."
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"It's not the circumstances of your life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy! Like attracts like, happiness attracts happiness, so just drop the excuses - drop every one of them - and be happy now!"
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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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"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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"The truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved."
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"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
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"To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
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