Happiness Quotes
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But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
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Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
