Happiness Quotes
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The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
Frederic Louis Sauser
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
Dalai Lama
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
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I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
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To me, the most important thing is happiness.
Sheryl Swoopes
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.
Oscar Wilde
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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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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
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Happiness needs one-upmanship.
Zygmunt Bauman
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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.
Anita Moorjani
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One of the outstanding tragedies of this age of struggle and money-madness is the fact that so few people are engaged in the effort which they like best. Everyone should find his or her particular niche in the world's work, where both material prosperity and happiness in abundance may be found.
Napoleon Hill
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Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.
Dalai Lama
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Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Victor Hugo
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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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I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.
Jack Roy
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Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.
Paul Reiser
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Denis de Rougemont
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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
Napoleon Hill
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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.
William Shakespeare
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Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.
Gautama Buddha
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
John Tillotson