Happiness Quotes
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Fanny Burney
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.'
Viktor E. Frankl
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I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
Nicole Kidman
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Happiness never becomes a habit.
Marilyn Monroe
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As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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It's funny how in that moment I see things clearly. Am I beaten down? Yes. Have I allowed myself to become a victim? Somewhat. Am I afraid? Always. Does some part of me still long to fly away from this place? Absolutely. But I can't leave. Sam and I have built a life for Joy. It isn't perfect, but it's a life. My family's happiness means more to me that starting over again.
Lisa See
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
Maeve Binchy
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.
Orison Swett Marden
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The most important thing in bringing happiness is that you’re ready to do it, you want to do it, and you’re determined to do it.
Jun Matsumoto Arashi
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
Al Pacino
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
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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.
Kate Morton
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For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.
Marilyn Monroe
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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
Adam Grant
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We can achieve happiness only then when we have a beauty; and we have a beauty thanks to philosophy. The truth is that only because of philosophy we can achieve happiness.
Al-Farabi
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Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue.
Adam Sandler
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You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
Hal Sparks
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
R. C. Sproul
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
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.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion, man also needs unhappiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky