Happiness Quotes
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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.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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I learned that money's not happiness. The more famous I am and the more money I make, the closer I stay to my family and friends that I've known since junior high school. True happiness to me is the connection with fellow human beings I've known for a long time.
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
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I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.
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I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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Sun, silence, and happiness.
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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
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The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.
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I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.
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What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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Make my happiness--I will make yours.
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The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
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I try to remind myself that nothing is permanent. The chaos and the stress of life won't last forever. Eventually, it will go away and I will once again be left with nothing but happiness.
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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.
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The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
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Happiness and sadness are just two eternal truths like day and night. A man of superior intellect is never affected by these emotions. They are not base emotions at all but a reflection of our thoughts, a reaction to our perspective on things we see, hear and do. Equanimity is not only desirable in a warrior, but a must. Without it, you are as good as dead in the battlefield.
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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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Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.
