Happiness Quotes
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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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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Jane Austen
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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
Jon Foreman
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It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.
Sandra Bernhard
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Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.
Dalai Lama
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
Amy Lowell
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
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Love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.
Emilie du Chatelet
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honore de Balzac
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Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
Barbara Hutton
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William Hazlitt
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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
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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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Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
Alveda King
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
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Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.
Arsene Houssaye
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There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
Chris Prentiss
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Routine shortens and variety lengthens time, and it is therefore in the power of men to do something to regulate its pace. A life with many landmarks, a life which is much subdivided when those subdivisions are not of the same kind, and when new and diverse interests, impressions, and labours follow each other in swift and distinct successions, seems the most long.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.
Brian Tracy
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I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
Ethan Suplee
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
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We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.
Enrique Penalosa
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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.
Abraham Lincoln