Happiness Quotes
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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
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Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
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Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
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The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.
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The kind of happiness that I’m talking about is the ability to feel comfortable no matter what emotion arises.
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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
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Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.
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I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"
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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
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Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.
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No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
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God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
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Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
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My goal is long-term happiness. And I make choices that aren’t going to undermine that goal.
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Happiness is no laughing matter.
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How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we're really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?
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For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness. She wanted to stay like that. She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again long, desiring . . .
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
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There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.
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If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
