Happiness Quotes
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
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Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
Rene Char
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The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
Garchen Rinpoche
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Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.
Hal Elrod
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Happiness comes the way the wind blows.
Mikhail Lermontov
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I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.
Rita Hayworth
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Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.
Eric Gill
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If I have to go somewhere else, a lot of things are going to have to be changed or you're going to have an unhappy player, If I'm not happy, you don't want me on your team. It's that simple. I'll make that known to anybody.
Gary Sheffield
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But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.
Blaise Pascal
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It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.
M. F. K. Fisher
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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
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How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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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.
Melissa de la Cruz
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Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.
Sallust
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Haruki Murakami
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Bullies enjoy dark happiness; these are the blank parts that eventually fill their minds with nothingness.
Emily Shanks
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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.
Saint Augustine
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And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.
Hermann Hesse
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Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought.
Stevie Wonder
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Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?
Jennifer Donnelly
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens
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Labor is the law of happiness.
Abel Stevens
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The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.
D. H. Lawrence