Happiness Quotes
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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 -
Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles
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Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
Blaise Pascal -
Happiness is a journey rather than a destination.
John Lombardo 10,000 Maniacs -
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 -
All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
Gautama Buddha -
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 -
Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.
Joyce Meyer
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I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love.
Whitney Houston -
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.
Oprah Winfrey -
You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.
George Bernard Shaw -
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks -
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Stendhal -
You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
Napoleon Hill -
Can any man say with certainty that he was happy at a particular moment of time which he remembers as being delightful? Remembering it certainly makes him happy, because he realizes how happy he could have been, but at the actual moment when the alleged happiness was occurring, did he really feel happy? He was like a man owning a piece of ground in which, unknown to himself, a treasure lay buried.
Eugene Delacroix -
Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.
Farkas Bolyai -
Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.
Lao Tzu -
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Charlotte Bronte
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When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.
Gautama Buddha -
We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.
Joyce Grenfell -
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
Jules Michelet -
The day of individual happiness has passed.
Adolf Hitler