Happiness Quotes
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk
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There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sickrooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
Bolesław Prus
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
Yehuda Amichai
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie
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Fun opens the doors to creativity, which then leads to inspiration, which then births passion, which all together equals both happiness and success!
Rachele Brooke Smith
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
J. Donald Walters
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Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
Socrates
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
Olympia Brown
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt
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Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.
Richard Branson
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness has obviously never been inside a bookstore.
Katrina Mayer
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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
Zig Ziglar
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We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
Baha'u'llah
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson
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Happiness is the way you show up for life, not the way life show up for you.
Katrina Mayer
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We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.
Marianne Williamson
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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.
Ben Mikaelsen
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
C. S. Lewis