Happiness Quotes
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Jane Austen
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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
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
Rene Dubos
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Happiness eludes us if we run after it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
Susan Faludi
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There is no wilderness so dreary but that His love can illuminate it, no desolation so desolate but that He can sweeten it. I know what I am saying. It is no delusion. I believe that the highest, purest happiness is known only to those who have learned Christ in sick-rooms, in poverty, in racking suspense and anxiety, amid hardships, and at the open grave.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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It was a temporary state of grace, this upwelling of suspense and happiness, but I knew that every feeling I'd ever had was and would be temporary.
Christine Sneed
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One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
Sigmund Freud
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Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
Anne Bronte
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Happiness is a journey rather than a destination.
John Lombardo 10,000 Maniacs
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I suffer a lot with mental health and stuff, so I had to find something that was going to make me OK with who I was and also give me some peace and happiness with being alive. So yeah, I've worked hard on myself.
Sasha Lane
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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.
William Hazlitt
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The day of individual happiness has passed.
Adolf Hitler
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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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With love one can live even without happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
Alexandre Dumas
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Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.
Antonio Gala
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
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Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.
Dan Miller
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You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Ezra Taft Benson
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I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.
J. D. Salinger
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
Friedrich Nietzsche