Happiness Quotes
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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
Kathleen Norris
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I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
Alessandro Baricco
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Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.
Esther Hicks
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Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
Corrie Ten Boom
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But I don’t think anyone should have the right to crush happiness or beauty when they see it.
Olivier Dahan
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
Jane Austen
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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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What is an Extraordinary Life? A life of meaning, a magnificent life, a life of joy, happiness, love, passion, success, and fulfillment. Life experienced on your terms.
Anthony Robbins
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
William James
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao Tzu
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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.
Ivan Turgenev
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One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
Zicheng Hong
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One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.
Coco Chanel
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We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.
Walther Rathenau
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Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.
Catherine the Great
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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.
Jane Austen
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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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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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I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
Ethan Suplee
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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.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
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The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.
Honore de Balzac
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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