Happiness Quotes
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To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another's unhappiness. So then, what exactly should I pray for? Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.
Chica Umino
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For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
Jane Austen
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Happiness has a very short half-life.
Tim Ferriss
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
Boyd K. Packer
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The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.
Napoleon Hill
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Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.
George Washington
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... we can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Albert Camus
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Make happiness a daily habit!
Katrina Mayer
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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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Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has had very little success with either one.
Bill Ballance
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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.
Clifton Anderson
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A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
Blaise Pascal
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The day of individual happiness has passed.
Adolf Hitler
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
Epictetus
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
Jules Michelet
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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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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
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I think one of the things we have in this modern, individualistic age is a recognition that happiness can look very different for very different people. Happiness is not necessarily about how much money you make, happiness isn't necessarily about these aspects of your life.
Ben Domenech