Happiness Quotes
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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I was never motivated by money. I think above all else about the happiness of my family, regardless of money.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
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Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
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We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
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There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
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True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn't grow you as a person.
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
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Make others happy, and you will be happy yourself.
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Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
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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.
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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I know well that happiness is in little things.
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
