Happiness Quotes
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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You can't buy happiness.
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It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
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Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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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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Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.
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Always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives.
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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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Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
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All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
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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.
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So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
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Their conduct leads one to believe that they truly imagine that happiness lasts forever in this temporary, precarious life.
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
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So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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I saw a very old man, literally eating his own human waste out of hunger. I went to the nearby hotel and asked them what was available. They had idli, which I bought and gave to the old man. Believe me, I had never seen a person eating so fast, ever. As he ate the food, his eyes were filled with tears. Those were the tears of happiness.
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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of 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.
