Happiness Quotes
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
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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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I know well that happiness is in little things.
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I think that it would be good for people to realize and understand that they are doing something to deal with their pain and they aren't really going to be allowed to escape it and outrun it forever without side effects and certain consequences, as far as emotional and mental happiness and their physical condition. And I'd like people to be aware of those things.
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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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People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
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What you focus on becomes reality. Everybody carries anger inside. But also happiness. Those who focus on anger will always be angry. Those who focus on happiness will.
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The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.
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Where there is change, there is happiness.
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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.
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happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
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Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings.
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Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.
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Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.
