Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
E. L. Konigsburg
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
Oscar Wilde
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Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
Norman Vincent Peale
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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
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May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Laura Schlessinger
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Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.
Brian Tracy
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It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
Francis Bacon
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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
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The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
Oprah Winfrey
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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
Joyce Grenfell
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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.
Gaston Bachelard
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.
Dean Ornish
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Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.
Napoleon Hill
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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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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
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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.
Chamique Holdsclaw
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Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.
Lao Tzu