Happiness Quotes
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Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
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As long as you have not set fire to everything you call yours, you are not alive. You are not here! Your happiness is not real.
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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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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
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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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Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.
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O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
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All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
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“Happiness springs up of itself in a united family. - House of Exile”
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
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Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog responding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things.
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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.
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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
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The healthy attitude, the only reasonable one towards a fault made or a sin committed is surely a vigorous shake of one’s moral shoulders, vigorous enough to shake it off and out of remembrance. The sin itself was a sad waste of time and happiness, and absolutely no more should be wasted in lugubriously reflecting on it. Shall we, poor human beings at such a disadvantage from the first in the fight with Fate through the many weaknesses and ailments of our bodies, load our souls as well with an ever-growing burden of regret and penitence? Shall we let a weight of vivid memories break our hearts? How are we to get on with our living if we are continually dropping into sloughs of bitter and often unjust self-reproach? Every morning comes the light, and a fresh chance of doing better. Is it not the sheerest folly and ingratitude to let yesterday spoil the God-given to-day?
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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
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Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness.
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One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.
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There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and wellbeing. Sometimes unexpected stuff will happen to us or around us. Our true power lies in our response.
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With love one can live even without happiness.
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The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.
