Happiness Quotes
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
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Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.
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If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
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I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.
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But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people - first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.
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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.
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Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.
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I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
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The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
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There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
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Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving.
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I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.
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The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.
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Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness.
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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
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I realize I’m a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
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Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.
