Happiness Quotes
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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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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But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.
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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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What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.
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Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
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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.
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Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
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The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.
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You can't buy happiness.
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No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.
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The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.
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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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Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.
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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
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That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.
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Happiness has a very short half-life.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge...
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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
