Happiness Quotes
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Rather happiness, peace or serenity is our natural state. Beneath all of what we add to our feelings and experience, beneath our self-contraction, lies serenity Itself.
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
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It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
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True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.
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Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
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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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You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.
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The true source of happiness is within each of us.
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Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you.
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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
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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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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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A successful life is an authentic life. Happiness and creativity rest on a foundation of transparency to yourself and others. Knowing your own heart and speaking clearly to others keep you on the path.
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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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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.
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Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
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It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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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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I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart, bestows on us more riches than Caesar or Alexander could ever conquer. Here is our kingdom, the best of monarchies, the best republic. Here is our garden, our happiness.
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Happiness and success in life are not the result of what we have, but rather of how we live. What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life.
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Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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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.
