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Happiness Quotes
"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year."
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"If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens."
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"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
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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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"Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life."
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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 does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that."
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"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true."
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"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
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"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."
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"I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny."
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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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"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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"Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier."
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"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."
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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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"That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do."
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"Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them."
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"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it."
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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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"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
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"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
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"So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity."
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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."
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