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Happiness Quotes
"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
76
"This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth."
73
"I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world."
70
"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
69
"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
69
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
67
"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
66
"Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will 'realize' true happiness."
65
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
64
"I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year."
64
"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
63
"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all."
63
"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."
62
"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
62
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
60
"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
60
"Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that-- and the feeling of having arrived at something which one cannot be deprived of by any unjust stroke of fortune."
60
"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
60
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
59
"Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it."
59
"If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."
59
"Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here."
59
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
58
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
58
"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?"
58
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
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