Happiness Quotes
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It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.
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Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.
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The true source of happiness is within each of us.
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All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.
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Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
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True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.
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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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Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
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She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.
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There is no key to happiness; the door is always open
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Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness.
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I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.
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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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The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.
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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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Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively consumed or gulped down like a sugary drink. Happiness must be created by own ingenuity.
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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
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Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
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Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.
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Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.
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The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
