Quotes about happiness
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other. Feist
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To the happy all things come: happiness can even bring the dead back to life. It is our resentments, our dreariness, our hate and envy, unrecognized by us, which keeps us miserable. Yet these things are in our heads, not out of our hands; we own them. We can throw them out if we choose. Fay Weldon
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When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time. Fanny Brice
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Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness .... Fanny Kemble
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How little has situation to do with happiness. Fanny Burney
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Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley
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If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man." Ezra Taft Benson
happiness gratitude grateful
The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
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Happiness hates the timid. So does science. Eugene O'Neill
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One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. Euripides
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
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... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all. Frances Wright
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter. George Washington
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Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.
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It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. George Santayana
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
happiness success education
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.
happiness believe passion
I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
happiness succeed standards
The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.
happiness work character
Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
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But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them. George Orwell
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?