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Happiness Quotes

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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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"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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"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
Arthur Helps
"Every happiness is a hostage to fortune."
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"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
Tom Wilson
"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
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"The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can."
Loretta Swit
"The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can."
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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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"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"
Oliver Goldsmith
"Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!"
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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."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"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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"Happiness? No, it's not there for me."
Robert Mapplethorpe
"Happiness? No, it's not there for me."
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
Carl Sandburg
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
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"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
William Morris
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
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"The will of man is his happiness."
Friedrich Schiller
"The will of man is his happiness."
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"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
Walter Savage Landor
"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
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"Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier."
Sam Levenson
"Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier."
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"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."
Thor Heyerdahl
"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."
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"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."
Stendhal
"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."
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"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
Andre Maurois
"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
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"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
John Barrymore
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
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"It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish."
Robert Herrick
"It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish."
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"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."
Joseph Addison
"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."
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"Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little."
Marguerite Gardiner
"Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little."
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"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."
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"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
Henry Van Dyke
"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
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"Happiness is no laughing matter."
Richard Whately
"Happiness is no laughing matter."
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"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
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"We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ['Happy days are back again']"
Erik Pevernagie
"We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ['Happy days are back again']"
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"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past."
Douglas Horton
"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past."
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"I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything."
Santosh Kalwar
"I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything."
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"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
Robert Green Ingersoll
"My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
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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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"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."
Tryon Edwards
"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."
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"I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."
Coretta Scott King
"I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense."
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"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."
Matthew Arnold
"To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive."
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"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
Horatio Nelson
"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."
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"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."
Bob Hope
"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."
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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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"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
Alice Walker
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
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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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"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
Storm Jameson
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
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"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."
Nana Mouskouri
"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."
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"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."
Andy Rooney
"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."
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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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"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
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"Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."
Red Skelton
"Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."
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"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."
Thomas Hood
"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."
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"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
Guy Laliberte
"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
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"Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness."
Gregg Easterbrook
"Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness."
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"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
Saint Augustine
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
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"The most simple things can bring the most happiness."
Izabella Scorupco
"The most simple things can bring the most happiness."
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