Happiness Quotes
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To share happiness, and to have done something good before leaving this life is sweet.
Gautama Buddha -
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
John Calvin
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Happiness is being married to your best friend.
Barbara Weeks -
Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps -
I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand -
Thoughts of lack manifest as limitation. Thoughts of abundance manifest as success and happiness. Failure and success are but two ends of the same stick.
Ernest Holmes -
Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Will Durant
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Pride’s worth a lot, it’s the only thing that can keep you walking when it feels like your feet’s worn down to the nubs. But as my ma would have said, you got to remember pride is a tool. You use it; you don’t let it use you. And you don’t sell your happiness ‘cause your spine’s too stiff to bend.
Elizabeth Bear -
The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Will Durant -
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Honore de Balzac -
Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
Jane Austen -
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
Josephine Baker
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
Cathy Guisewite -
To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other.
Ami Vitale -
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
Dante Alighieri -
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
Andrew Delbanco -
I thought happiness came from achievement.
Paul Henderson -
I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
Francine Rivers
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Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.
Russell Baker -
Happiness wishes everybody happy.
Victor Hugo -
Happiness, sadness, being mean and being nice. They're all very close to one another. My goal in my career is to do movies that are both... I hate when people say is it a comedy or a drama? My favorite movies are kind of both. Just like life, one day you're not crying all day, one day you're not laughing all day. I like to play characters that have that kind of balance, too.
Topher Grace -
The nature of everything is illusory and impermanent. Those with dualistic perception believe suffering is happiness. It is as though they are licking honey from a razor blade. How sad it is that they grasp to a concrete reality. Turn your attention within.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche