Happiness Quotes
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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.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
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A good education is another name for happiness.
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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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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
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The power of procreation is not an incidental part of the plan; it is the plan of happiness.
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
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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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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 no shame in preferring happiness.
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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.
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What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
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It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.
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Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.
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Everyone is the architect of their own happiness.
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All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
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Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
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Happiness is the moment when one doesn't feel pain.
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Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
