Happiness Quotes
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Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
John Locke
Nazareth
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Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
Brenda Shoshanna
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Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Eric Weiner
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"Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.
Satish Kumar
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This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!
David Dellinger
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No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
Dante Alighieri
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To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other.
Ami Vitale
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Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
Sylvie Meis
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Don’t get angry, she said, try to reflect: what does a woman of your understanding feel at the idea that her happiness becomes the ruin of someone else?
Elena Ferrante
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Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.
Ernst Junger
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To know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier... So why don't I just take the short cut and just be happy?
Esther Hicks
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Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.
Bill Crawford
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Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.
Burt Reynolds
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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