Happiness Quotes
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When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.
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Know your own 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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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
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Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.
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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
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Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness – people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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Happiness is a rare cosmetic.
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Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
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Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange...
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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
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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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The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
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Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
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So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.
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People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.