Happiness Quotes
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Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
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I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
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The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.
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Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
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People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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Appearances have very little to do with happiness.
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There is no key to happiness; the door is always open
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.
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Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.
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The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.
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Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character.
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Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the harmony we desire. As we raise our level of consciousness we become more in tune with the true nature of our being. This type of awareness is not an accident; it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.
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I think one of the things that is essential for happiness in life, or at least for non-sadness, is producing something. I guess that's why I spend so much time and agony writing books. But working on carpentry is sort of like all the pleasure with none of the agony.
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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
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I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
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Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.
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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.
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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
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Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
