Happiness Quotes
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Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.
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Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.
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Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
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Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
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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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You do learn things and one of them is that happiness has nothing to do with validation from other people, the important thing is being happy with yourself ... finding something that is important to you and sticking with it no matter what anyone says. The truth is you've got to really be tough because there are all kinds of forces that are always trying to get you to do things their way ... trying to tell you that you are throwing your life away if you don't follow their advice.
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
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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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When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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Don't stay watching happiness, make it.
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Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.
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It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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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 is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
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I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
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I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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Happiness depends on what happens; joy does not.
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
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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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Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.
