Happiness Quotes
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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
William H. Seward -
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
Aristotle
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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.
William Cowper -
Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.
Mikhail Bulgakov -
Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
George Bernard Shaw -
The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness.
William James -
Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man – his own mother, and the mother of his children. Besides these two legitimate kinds of love, there is nothing between the two creatures except vain excitement, painful and vain delusion.
Octave Feuillet -
Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
Jane Austen
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I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.
Alexander McQueen -
If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
Madame de La Fayette -
Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
Aristotle -
You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
J. P. Donleavy -
What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
Aristotle -
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
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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.
Albert Einstein -
Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
Muhammad Ali -
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Plutarch -
Whoever said money can't buy happiness has obviously never been inside a bookstore.
Katrina Mayer -
The realization that we are all basically the same human beings who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering is very helpful in developing a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood; a warm feeling of love and compassion for others.
Dalai Lama
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There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
Napoleon Hill -
The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
Enrique Penalosa -
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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Happiness is a choice—a choice to be joyful, no matter what the circumstance.
Sadie Robertson