Happiness Quotes
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One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
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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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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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I have invested my heart. There is a chance that it will be broken but also a chance at unlimited happiness.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.
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Labor is the law of happiness.
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
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Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.
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Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.
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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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Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
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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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It's such a happiness when good people get together.
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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.
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Happiness and high come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions.
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When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
