Happiness Quotes
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
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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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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.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
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It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
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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.
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Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
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Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is 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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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
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I like to call myself an "equal opportunist," as I love both dogs and cats, but over the last couple years, both Howard and I have become champions for cats. They are so independent and loving and playful and bring such happiness to our lives.
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Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.
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The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
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Down below all the crust of human conceptions, of human ideas, Christ sank an artesian well into a source of happiness so pure and blessed that even yet the world does not believe in it.
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What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
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Happiness is egotistical.
