Happiness Quotes
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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.
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Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you... The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in one's work.
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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.
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So this is happiness, that journeyman.
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
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For Socrates, virtue was nothing but its own pursuit. And only the promise of happiness is happiness itself.
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Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
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When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
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Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
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The people who will succeed fifteen years from now, the countries which will succeed, are those which are most based on a sustainable vision of the world. That is what we should be training people to do
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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love.
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They did not speak, surprised to see how simple, almost poor, happiness could be, yes, materially poor and yet so abundant.
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To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
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A Child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until she smiles, and then the sun lights up the world. ... Children of Happiness always look not quite the same as other children. They have strong, straight legs and walk with purpose. They laugh as do all children, and they play as do all children, they talk child talk as do all children, but they are different, they are blessed, they are special, they are sacred.
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I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.
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My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. —Michael J. Fox
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Nothing prevents happiness as much as the desire for more.
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There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.
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Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.
