Happiness Quotes
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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.
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Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
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Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.
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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.
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You reach peaks only to see there's another greater peak beyond it. Suddenly that one looks like it'd have a much better view. It's an endless cycle of going toward things that you think will provide you happiness. At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.
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Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.
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No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
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Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.
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It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.
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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.
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Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.
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Maximizers, according to a series of studies by Schwartz, are lower than satisficers in happiness, optimism, self-esteem, and life satisfaction, and higher in depression and regret!
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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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I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.
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Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.
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A happy memory is perhaps on this earth truer than happiness itself.
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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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I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
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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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God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
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Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
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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.
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The world is crammed with delightful things. I think young people make such a mistake about that - not letting themselves be happy. I sometimes think that happiness is the only thing that counts.
