Happiness Quotes
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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sarah Vowell
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How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
Anthony Malcolm Daniels
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Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.
Ben Chestnut
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For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: “I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them."
Edmund Morris
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Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.
Gertrude Atherton
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Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
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Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.
Elizabeth Goudge
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A good education is another name for happiness.
Ann Plato
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When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
Deborah Levy
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The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we love someone, the decision to experience pleasure, and to make room for it in our lives, is an internal one. If you are resistant, you could be around the most joyous people in the world and be miserable.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
