Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
Aristotle
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
Carlos Santana Santana
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Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
Victor Hugo
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
Jane Austen
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Happiness wishes everybody happy.
Victor Hugo
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She smiled and wanted to cry, too, for a moment. From happiness, she supposed. ‘What a wonderful day to be in love and be loved. I’m so happy.
Betty Neels
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
Henry Ward Beecher
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
Honore de Balzac
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
Abraham Lincoln
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The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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Do at least one thing every day that brings you joy and happiness.
Katrina Mayer
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
Epictetus
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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
Horace
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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
Jane Austen
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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse
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We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
Paul Claudel
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It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.
Marcel Proust
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
David Leonhardt
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We will do all we can to insure peace... but if war is imposed upon us we will be together shoulder to shoulder as in the last war to strive for the happiness of mankind.
Georgy Zhukov
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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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Rely on no one. Depend on no one for your happiness. I am declaring my independence. I am establishing a republic unto myself. I am seceding from the human race.
Eric Gamalinda
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
Henrik Ibsen
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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Gautama Buddha