Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is a choice—a choice to be joyful, no matter what the circumstance.
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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.
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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.
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How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.
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We are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.
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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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Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.
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I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.
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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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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
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When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.
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...the greater part or my spring happiness is due to the scent of the wet earth and young leaves. I am always happy out of doors be it understood, for indoors there are servants and furniture, but in quite different ways, and my spring happiness bears no resemblance to my summer or autumn happiness, though it is not more intense, and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.
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To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.
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The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
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Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.
