Happiness Quotes
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There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.
Beatrice Warde
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As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.
Edgar Saltus
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Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.
Jane Austen
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The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.
Dalai Lama
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Happiness is making your dreams come true.
Jourdan Dunn
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We are the architects of our own happiness.
Gerald Causse
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We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.
Esther Hicks
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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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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
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When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers
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Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.
Philip James Bailey
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We’re young, we’re not monsters, no fools: we’ll conquer happiness for ourselves.
Ivan Turgenev
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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
Epictetus
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Happiness has a very short half-life.
Tim Ferriss
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I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
Francine Rivers
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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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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
William Butler Yeats
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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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If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Gautama Buddha
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Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
Abraham Lincoln
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Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
Georg Ebers