Happiness Quotes
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.
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Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.
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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.
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When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
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To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
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Our happiness relies more on hope, faith and our inner values than on anything outside ourselves.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it. There is a divinity about cats, as long as they are silent: the silence of swans gives them an air of legend.
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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
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Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
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The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness
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Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness.
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
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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.
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
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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.
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Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire
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Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.
