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Happiness Quotes

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"There isn't a single definition of happiness to suit everyone's requirements, but you know it when you feel it."
Mensah Oteh
"There isn't a single definition of happiness to suit everyone's requirements, but you know it when you feel it."
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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
George Washington
"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
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"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
Stendhal
"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
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"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
Stendhal
"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
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"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery."
Frederick Douglass
"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery."
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"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
William Cowper
"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
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"I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards."
Amy Adams
"I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards."
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"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well."
Charles Van Doren
"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well."
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"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."
Robert Trout
"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."
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"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."
Arthur C. Brooks
"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."
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"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
John Burroughs
"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
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"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."
Pearl S. Buck
"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."
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"When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you."
Arthur Ashe
"When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you."
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"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
Arthur Helps
"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
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"Some pursue happiness others create it."
Anonymous
"Some pursue happiness others create it."
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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."
Billy Graham
"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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"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage."
Laura Schlessinger
"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage."
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"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."
Joseph Butler
"Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects."
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"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."
William S. Burroughs
"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."
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"If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness."
Leon Kass
"If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness."
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"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
George Horace Lorimer
"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."
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"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
Don Marquis
"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
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"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."
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"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."
Logan P. Smith
"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."
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"I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life."
Ethan Suplee
"I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life."
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"Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose."
John Stossel
"Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose."
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"Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me."
Annni-Frid Lyngstad
"Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me."
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"Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable."
Meir Kahane
"Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable."
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"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness."
Harry F. Banks
"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness."
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"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."
Bo Derek
"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."
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"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness."
Harold Kushner
"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness."
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
Hosea Ballou
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."
Victoria Woodhull
"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
Dante Alighieri
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
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"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."
William Weld
"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."
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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
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"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness."
Conor Oberst
"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness."
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"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."
Donatella Versace
"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."
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"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."
Polly Toynbee
"Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP."
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"The will of man is his happiness."
Friedrich Schiller
"The will of man is his happiness."
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"We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government."
Paul Ryan
"We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government."
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"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness."
Lucinda Williams
"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness."
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"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
Lynn Johnston
"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
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"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
Ingrid Bergman
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
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"I have found the key to a happy life is to get lost in love."
Debasish Mridha
"I have found the key to a happy life is to get lost in love."
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"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
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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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"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
Epictetus
"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
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"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime."
Vittorio Alfieri
"Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime."
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"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
John Dewey
"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."
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