Happiness Quotes
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Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.
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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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God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
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Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?
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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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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
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To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out, and down, and on the road. To hesitate; to go on, and ahead, and back, and up the stairs, and in one’s room. On the way, to notice that the mountain is still there. To lie and sleep, deeply, heavily. To reproduce night’s sleep. To wake up, look through the window at green water, from the Bay to the mountain, and return to one’s self. To remember that war is devastating Irak. To feel pain.
Etel Adnan -
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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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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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.
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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.
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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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I believe happiness is a choice. Some days it is a very difficult choice.
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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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No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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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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Happiness is a by product of service.
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You can't describe love, Kathie, and you can't define it. Only it goes with you all your life. I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty...and maybe after that sorrow. You wouldn't think that sorrow could be a light would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes...I think that is what love is to a woman...a lantern in her hand.
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The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.
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Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.
