Happiness Quotes
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As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.
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Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
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Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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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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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.
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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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Katherine Mary, we're going to know each other very wel, for many years, I hope. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life. Your sergeant coming home, a good dinner, your little Mary laughing, the smell of the woods- oh, so many things, you know them yourself.
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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Joys divided are increased.
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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
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We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
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Happiness is something you take with you. It's not something that you find.
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A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.
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Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
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You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
