Happiness Quotes
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The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
John Locke Nazareth
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The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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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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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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Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
Georg Ebers
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal. You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who could make you so.
Elizabeth Bennett
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The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
Esther Duflo
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When we do what is right, we have contentment, peace and happiness.
Beverly LaHaye
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Your people are losing your jobs to your machines. You put mechanizing everything and making it efficient above your people's happiness, and you wonder why they aren't happy.
Ekaterina Sedia
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Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
Anne Bronte
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People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.
Kathy Lette
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A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness.
Clarence Day
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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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Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
Nicholas A. Christakis
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.
Ivan Turgenev
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The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
Blaise Pascal
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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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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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If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
Nathaniel Cotton
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Don’t get angry, she said, try to reflect: what does a woman of your understanding feel at the idea that her happiness becomes the ruin of someone else?
Elena Ferrante
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Rich women need not fear old age; their gold can always create about them any feelings necessary to their happiness.
Honore de Balzac