Happiness Quotes
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But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
Haruki Murakami
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
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Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
William James
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Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
Alessandro Baricco
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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.
Albert Camus
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There is no key to happiness; the door is always open
Mother Teresa
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Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
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Anyone who says that money cannot buy happiness has clearly never spent their money on pizza.
Andrew W.K.
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If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
Satish Kumar
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One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
Zicheng Hong
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I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
Muhammad Ali
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Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
Victor Hugo
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Happiness is found in the absence of expectation and a continuous focus on appreciation.
Anthony Robbins
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The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.
Elise M. Boulding
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
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If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.
Caitlin Thomas
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer
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You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.
Elsie de Wolfe
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
George Washington
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust
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If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.
John Calvin
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My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.
William Butler Yeats