Happiness Quotes
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Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
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Happiness is the quiet lull between problems.
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Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
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Freedom for me is the sacred right to think ... education is the fundamental part for social happiness: it is the principle on which liberty rests, and the growth of all towns.
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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.
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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
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You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
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You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
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Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.
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Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
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The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.
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The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
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Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
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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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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.
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I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of possibility. You know, that feeling? And I remember thinking to myself: So, this is the beginning of happiness. This is where it starts. And of course there will always be more. It never occurred to me it wasn't the beginning. It was happiness. It was the moment. Right then.
