Happiness Quotes
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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
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To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
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An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
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But I don’t think anyone should have the right to crush happiness or beauty when they see it.
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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world.
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Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
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I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
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Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.
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Welcome a new opportunity gifted to you once again for Happiness, Inspiration, Passion & Courage to endure… The opportunity is known as, “Good Morning“
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I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
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The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.
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God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
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He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.
