Happiness Quotes
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Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
Thomas Hardy -
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
Susan Faludi
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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
Honore de Balzac -
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 -
Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps -
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller -
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 -
If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Gautama Buddha
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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak -
True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
Merrill Markoe -
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw -
Happiness wishes everybody happy.
Victor Hugo -
Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.
Karen White
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Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
Katherine Hannigan -
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 -
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
James Anthony Froude -
It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.
Gautama Buddha -
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
I thought happiness came from achievement.
Paul Henderson
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If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Ezra Taft Benson -
Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.
Diane Ackerman -
Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
William B. Ogden -
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
Boyd K. Packer