Happiness Quotes
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I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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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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No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.
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You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.
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Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.
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Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving.
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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.
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Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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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.
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The way to find your happiness joy is to make a list of all the things that are fun for YOU to do. Then do some of those things everyday.
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Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living.
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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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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
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The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.
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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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I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
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It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
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Happiness may be found only by helping others to find it.
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Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.
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There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
