Happiness Quotes
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It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
Nachman of Breslov -
The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
Plato
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.
Amy Poehler -
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
Joyce Grenfell -
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.
Dalai Lama -
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
Jonathan Swift -
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
Alexandre Dumas
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You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Happiness is something you take with you. It's not something that you find.
Katrina Mayer -
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
C. S. Lewis -
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman -
Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
Epictetus -
Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
Sarah Addison Allen -
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.
W. H. Auden -
Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
Hermann Hesse -
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.
Beatrice Sparks -
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles -
Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore de Balzac
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Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.
Alfred A. Montapert -
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton -
All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
Lord Byron -
There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort
Dalai Lama