Happiness Quotes
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Success without happiness is failure.
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Of all the things I wish for in this world, I want you to find happiness. I suspect you never will have that with me, and I've resigned myself to the matter.”
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History has shown time and time again that there is no such thing as all things being equal. That is why Jefferson wrote that our inalienable rights were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Nothing is guaranteed in life, especially happiness.
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
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..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
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She thought of Jonah and regretted that she hadn’t really forgiven him as she’d promised. Holding a grudge suddenly seemed so contrary to her own happiness, so pointless. What good was it? No good, because it kept them apart. She wished she could tell him she was finally ready to start over and make it work, to forgive Adriana, as well.
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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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Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Happiness is a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
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Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen.” His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named “flow.” In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.
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Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.
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Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.
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Even while you're in pain, your happiness will be waiting
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The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.
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Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
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What's money without happiness?
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It's foolish to speak of your happiness before you're sure you have it.
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I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
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I would have the small happinesses of the unmarried girl in glasses who spends her life studying: a walk, being taken by the hand.
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There can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from the home.
