Happiness Quotes
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If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.
Chip Ingram
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Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
Galen
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[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
Jane Austen
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I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.
Wesley Willis
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Money can't buy you happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places.
Milton Berle
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Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?
John Lennon The Beatles
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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
John Calvin
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I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.
Adrienne C. Moore
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Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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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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The secret gives you anything you want; happiness, health, and wealth.
Bob Proctor
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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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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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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
Plato
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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
Honore de Balzac
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A husband and wife who are in the habit of occupying separate rooms are either beings apart, or they have found happiness. Either they hate or they adore each other.
Honore de Balzac
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Every morning when we wake up we've been given a wonderful gift-another day of life-so let's make the most of it. No one can do it for us. . . . Genuine happiness can only be realized once we commit to making it a personal priority in our lives. This may be a new behavior for some of us and a bit intimidating. Be gentle with yourself. It will all unfold. Like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
Ernest A. Fitzgerald
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette Davis
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There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
Gautama Buddha
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Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.
Saul Bellow
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One day it dawned on her that life was not going to happen some time in the future. She realized that her happiness was right here and now.
Katrina Mayer
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
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It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.
Eugene O'Neill