Happiness Quotes
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Henrik Ibsen -
I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
Damien Rice
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The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude.
Sara Coleridge -
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
.. 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 -
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Yaron Brook -
The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
William Shakespeare -
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
Queen Christina -
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 -
The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
Katharine Hepburn -
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
William L. Shirer -
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.
Whitney Houston
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
Yoko Ono -
No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.
Gautama Buddha -
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
Leni Riefenstahl -
The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
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The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
Gautama Buddha -
Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.
Daul Kim -
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
Julia Roberts