Happiness Quotes
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Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
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Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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Rigging is like Zen meditation. You must bend over the boat until your back is breaking, until your brain is filled with numbers and fractions of numbers, until you can accurately measure an oarlock's pitch without bothering to use the pitch meter. Only then will you see the way of eternal rigging happiness.
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Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well
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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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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
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In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
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Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
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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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Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
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And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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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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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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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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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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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
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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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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
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If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
