Happiness Quotes
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
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The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!
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I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
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Happiness, like anger, is also a habit. You learn to be happy one day at a time. But habits change hard.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative.
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Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
