Happiness Quotes
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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.
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
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Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.
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The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints.
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But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The House at Riverton.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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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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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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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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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
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If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
