Happiness Quotes
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Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means – it means the movie has an unhappy ending.
Chuck Klosterman -
I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.
Jane Austen
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
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 -
To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.
John Tillotson -
A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.
Aristotle -
Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
Aaron Cohen -
Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
Epictetus
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The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
Garchen Rinpoche -
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Confucius -
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.
Hermann Hesse -
The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
William Lyon Phelps -
Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
Jane Austen -
Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.
Abd ar-Rahman ibn Nasir as-Sa'di
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A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace.
Hamilton Wright Mabie -
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 -
We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.
Joyce Grenfell -
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.
Albert Camus -
... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
Charles Dickens -
The only way for us to have long-term happiness is to live by our highest ideals.
Anthony Robbins
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen -
Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.
Epictetus -
Wishing is good for us. Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations All drive us forward, Impel us to make things happen. They also tell us a lot about ourselves. Our wishes come straight from our core, And they are loaded with vital information About who we are and who we can become. Keeping track of our wishes Helps us tap into the energy That propels us to go after our happiness.
Barbara Ann Kipfer -
The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.
Brian Tracy