Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.
Carlos Santana Santana
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William James
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I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare
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I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
Bernard Loiseau
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To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Will Durant
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I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.
Corey Feldman
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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.
John Ruskin
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I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.
Connie Brockway
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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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Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.
John Ruskin
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We are the architects of our own happiness.
Gerald Causse
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
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Russia's 62% of women and only 38% men, many of whom are heavy drinkers, so the battle for the female happiness is a rude one, only the slimmest, the leggiest, the blondest and the sexiest are the winners.
Alexander Vassiliev
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Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
Sharon Stone
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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
Audrey Niffenegger
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The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
Izabella Scorupco
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The day of individual happiness has passed.
Adolf Hitler
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Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Nothing prevents happiness as much as the desire for more.
Arturo Graf
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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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Happiness need not be analyzed.
Barbara Ann Kipfer