Happiness Quotes
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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
Helen Keller
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The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.
George Hodges
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.
Emily Dickinson
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When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck
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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.
Edward Bates
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In India, we are parented in a way that we get very good values. But the whole culture forgets to tell us to also value ourselves. It's really OK sometimes to take into consideration your own happiness.
Swara Bhaskar
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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
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Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
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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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If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.
Chip Ingram
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Happiness is an angel with a serious face.
Amedeo Modigliani
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
Seneca the Younger
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Stephen Covey
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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
Rumi
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There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.
Gautama Buddha
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The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.
Jimmy Carter
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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...
Alexandre Dumas
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The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
Cathy Guisewite
