Happiness Quotes
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Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
Beatrice Lillie
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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
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Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
Charles Douglas Jackson
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This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it's like when you and someone else are right together. How simple is is, and how amazing.
Elizabeth Scott
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Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
Sigmund Freud
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You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
J. P. Donleavy
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
Honore de Balzac
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The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.
Alberto Moravia
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud
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Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie
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A conductor's happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.
Itay Talgam
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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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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
William H. Seward
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Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.
Dalai Lama
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Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.
Amy Poehler
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We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.
Joyce Grenfell
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Jane Austen
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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
Epictetus
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A birth we embark on a good journey, seeking a destination of happiness. The journeys on our life-road facilitate development of our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual states-of-being, into a way of true power and wisdom. The Heart-center power, expressed as happiness and love, will guide us upward on a path away from frustration, bitter toil and travail. These journeys are directed inward, not outwardly in material mementos of ego and possession. The lesson is relearning that which has been suppressed and forgotten, in ourselves, since our earliest childhood.
R. Carlos Nakai