Happiness Quotes
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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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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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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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.
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Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc
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Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
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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.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.
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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.
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My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, .... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH....
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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.
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Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.
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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.
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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!
