Happiness Quotes
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One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.
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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.
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Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.
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You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.
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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.
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There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort
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It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to.
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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.
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No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
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There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
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Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge...
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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word of honor is God in man."
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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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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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
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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.
