Happiness Quotes
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You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.
Hermann Hesse
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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."
Ezra Taft Benson
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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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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.
C. S. Lewis
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The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
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People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.
Charles E. McKenzie
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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.
Eugenio Montale
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People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.
Honore de Balzac
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What is it, Angel?" she said, starting up. "Have they come for me?" "Yes, dearest," he said. "They have come." "It is as it should be," she murmured. "Angel, I am almost glad—yes, glad! This happiness could not have lasted. It was too much. I have had enough; and now I shall not live for you to despise me!" She stood up, shook herself, and went forward, neither of the men having moved. "I am ready," she said quietly.
Thomas Hardy
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Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me - but with that delusion came of lot of happiness. Life was really black and white: if you do these things now, God will you invite you to his house where you will love forever and everything will be happy forever. That's what I believed, and that makes life pretty sweet. I do miss it.
Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson
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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?
Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
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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.
Michael Nutter
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There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
Chris Prentiss
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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.
Aristotle
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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.
Dalai Lama
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles
