Happiness Quotes
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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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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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All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.
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I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
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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."
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One day it dawned on her that life was not going to happen some time in the future. She realized that her happiness was right here and now.
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This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above.
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Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
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Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
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Make my happiness--I will make yours.
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All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
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A good education is another name for happiness.
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I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other.
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I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.
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I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.
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Money won't buy you happiness, but it'll pay for the search...
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then...
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
