Happiness Quotes
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
Aristotle -
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
Soren Kierkegaard
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden -
Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Robert Baden-Powell -
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg -
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
Aristotle -
You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
Candace Bushnell -
But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.
Albert Einstein
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
Sai Baba -
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 -
I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
Victoria Osteen -
The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich Schiller -
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
Charles Dickens -
Your happiness depends on you alone.
Aristotle
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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Albert Einstein -
Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
Adam Davidson -
Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
Aristotle -
If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
Viggo Mortensen -
Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
John Milton -
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Orison Swett Marden -
I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.
Franz Kafka -
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo -
...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.
Aristotle