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Happiness Quotes
"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
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"You are lucky, Renisenb. You have found the happiness that is inside everybody's own heart. To most women, happiness means coming and going, busied over small affairs. It is care for one's children and laughter and conversation and quarrels with other women and alternate love and anger with a man. It is made up of small things strung together like beads on a string."
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"Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment."
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"Let's Run in the circle, opposite to each other. Until we are thrown into the sky by the storm swirling in between us. I'll hold your hands and I'll hug you, let me be your wings. Let's fall on that clouds and let's dance on the rainbow. Let's bore a hole in that sky until we fall back to the sea with the rain. And Let's swim back to the shore, to play the game of circle again."
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"Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy."
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"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it."
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"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
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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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"Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation!"
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"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."
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"The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. We have our fingers in the dike. Hold steady. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now."
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"The end will come with the return of Jesus Christ . . .That is why a Christian can be an optimist. That is why a Christian can smile in the midst of all that is happening . . .We know what the end will be: the triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ!"
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"But, like all happiness, it did not last long."
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"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."
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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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"I was happy but 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. This is where I disagree with the philosophers. They talk about passionate things but there is no passion in them. Never talk happiness with a philosopher."
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
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"Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality."
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"The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us."
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"We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are."
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"Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings."
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"Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself."
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"I embrace new experiences every day. I revel in the fun adventures I create for myself and absorb their blissful gifts."
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"Happiness is there when expectations meet the reality."
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"Many people think that if they were only in some other place or had some other job they would be happy. Well that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."
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"We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."
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"To measure a man's happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator."
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"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries."
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"The secret of being happy is not longing for it!"
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"Be Happy not Satisfied, Focus on what you have to be HAPPY and focus on your potential to feel 'NOT SATISFIED'."
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"She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to feel peace in their hearts, they wanted a life without turmoil, they wanted to be happy. The difference, she thought, was that most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future. While most older people believed that they lay in the past."
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