Happiness Quotes
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
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O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
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If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
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And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
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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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Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.
