Happiness Quotes
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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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.
Dalai Lama
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We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.
Joyce Grenfell
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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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Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
Jonathan Swift
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
Tacitus
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Confucius
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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good.
Baruch Spinoza
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Happiness is egotistical.
Alexandre Dumas
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Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
Gautama Buddha
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
Coco Chanel
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Every night before you go to bed write down three things good that happened to you that day. That's pretty much all it takes to get a happiness boost over time.
Eric Barker
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
Ivan Turgenev
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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think we need to not look at sorrow and happiness as opposites that cannot co-exist. They can and do co-exist. I have preached many memorial services where you see the sadness and the tears for those attending, and then you see how quick people are to laugh as they remember funny and happy things about their loved ones. And if the deceased knew Christ, those in attendance are able to rejoice as they anticipate the reunion that will one day come.
Randy Alcorn
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The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.
Ali Vincent
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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.
Andrea Pirlo
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Collectively, we have all it takes to create a just and peaceful world, but we must work together and share our talents. We all need one another to find happiness within ourselves and within the world.
Craig Kielburger
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
William Makepeace Thackeray