Happiness Quotes
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But the reason we have this built-in desire for happiness is because we're created in God's image. He wired us to want to be happy. Unfortunately, we sometimes disassociate happiness from its true source, which is God Himself. Satan tempts us by offering us happiness, because he knows that's what we want. But he offers it in the wrong places, at the wrong times, and in the wrong things.
Randy Alcorn
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Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity and pain.
Diana Peterfreund
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Happiness is making your dreams come true.
Jourdan Dunn
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When we are filled with the Spirit of God, we are filled with joy, with peace and with happiness no matter what our circumstances may be; for it is a spirit of cheerfulness and of happiness.
George Q. Cannon
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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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Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.
Bo Lozoff
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Their conduct leads one to believe that they truly imagine that happiness lasts forever in this temporary, precarious life.
Arcangela Tarabotti
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A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.
Ai Yazawa
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Lasting happiness is the offspring of endurance.
Chris Heimerdinger
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Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.
Benjamin de Hoyos
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Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
Newell Dwight Hillis
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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.
Aristotle
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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
Aristotle
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All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.
William Shakespeare
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I define spirituality as a search for love, beauty, happiness and wisdom. Spirituality is a journey that we never finish.
Akiane Kramarik
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Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.
Sarah Doudney
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.
Herodotus
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Kendra, nice to meet you, may you find less happiness than you deserve. Dale, you are as mute as your brother, and nearly as pale. Seth, please have another mishap soon. Stan, you lack the wit of an orangutan, bless your soul. Do not be strangers.
Brandon Mull
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Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.
Fauja Singh
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When you know for yourselves, 'These things are wholesome; these things are blameless; these things are praised by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should engage in them.
Gautama Buddha
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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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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.
Seneca the Younger
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In times of happiness we do not begin to perceive the strength of the mighty tenderness which the deep recesses of the heart hold for those we love. We need misfortune and the sense of suffering endured by those for whom we would give our last drop of blood, to learn the power of it.
Alfred Dreyfus