Happiness Quotes
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Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.
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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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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.
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Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
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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.
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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
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Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.
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Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
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It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
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You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
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The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
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Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
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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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The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.
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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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There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.
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Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.
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While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.
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Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
