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Happiness Quotes
"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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"It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten another's dull task. What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchanges of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?"
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"I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness."
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"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
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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."
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"And on the endless dusty ribbon of the highway, on sunken roads vaulted over by branches, on paths between stands of grain that rose to his knees, the sun on his shoulders and the morning air in his nostrils, his heart full of the night's bliss, his spirit at peace and his flesh content, he would ride on his way ruminating his happiness, like someone who keeps savoring, hours later, the fragrance of the truffles he has eaten for dinner."
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"To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness."
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"Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found."
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"Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have."
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"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."
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"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
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"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect."
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
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"Unless and until you give happiness to others you truly cannot be happy."
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"Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony."
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"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels."
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"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."
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"That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do."
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"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."
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"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here."
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"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?"
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"I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now."
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"I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination."
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"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
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"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."
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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."
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"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do."
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"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
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"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."
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"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
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