Happiness Quotes
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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.
Charles Dickens
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.
Albert Einstein
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
Candace Bushnell
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But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.
Albert Einstein
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
Adam Davidson
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Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.
Aristotle
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If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
Viggo Mortensen
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
John Milton
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Orison Swett Marden
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Samuel Johnson
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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
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I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.
Franz Kafka