Happiness Quotes
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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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Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth.
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Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
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All I'm after is a few square metres to be myself. A space where I can continue to profess my creed: take the ball, give it to a team-mate, my team-mate scores. It's called an assist, and it's my way of spreading happiness.
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
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Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
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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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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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If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
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He who, seeking his own happiness, punishes or kills beings who also long for happiness, will not find happiness after his death.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
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So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
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You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.
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Happiness has a very short half-life.
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We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.
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Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.
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If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
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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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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
