Happiness Quotes
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Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.
Blake Mycoskie
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
William Ellery Channing
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I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable happiness. For a long time I couldn't enter his life because his happiness, or appearance of happiness - his unending smiles - locked the door. An ingenious strategy, to surround the thorns with a castle.
Elizabeth Hay
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There is no shame in preferring happiness.
Albert Camus
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I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.
Ai Yazawa
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
Richard Whately
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She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.
Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
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I give you my spirit, my flesh and my memories. Every drop of my blood sings our song. A song of happiness. There… Do you hear it?
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak
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I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.
Eve Ensler
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Create enterprise, live on your own terms, and you’ll find the key to happiness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Mrs. Colquhoun was being amiable because she thought Catherine was down and out, and Mrs. Colquhoun was what she was, hard, severe, critical, grudging of happiness, kind to failure so long as it remained failure, simply because there wasn’t a soul in the whole world who really loved her. A devoted husband would have done much to bring out her original goodness; a very devoted husband would have done everything.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.
William Butler Yeats
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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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Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
Jane Austen
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The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.
Ernest Holmes
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
John Calvin
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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
Plato
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
Bill Crawford
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Money can't buy you happiness. It just helps you look for it in more places.
Milton Berle
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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