Happiness Quotes
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We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty.
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And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is genuine life, and that an unshared happiness is not happiness.
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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
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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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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.
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Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
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It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.
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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
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Unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
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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.
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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.
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The miracle-minded perception would be to make happiness itself our goal and to relinquish the thought that we know what that would look like.
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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.
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The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
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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.
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I thought I was unhappy before… I was just a stupid young kid that didn’t know what happiness was. I was like a snot in a candy store who not only wanted all he could eat, but the whole thing. Life is stupid. Stupid. Or at least to this point, mine is.
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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.
