Quotes about happiness
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction. William James
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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. William James
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All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is utterly without mental reference to pleasure and pain, except under rarely realized conditions. William James
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. William James
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it. William James
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We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh. William James
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The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow. William James
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. William James
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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing. William James
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom. Will Durant
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Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich. Sarah Bernhardt
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When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. Sarah Addison Allen
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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. Sarah Addison Allen
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We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments of happiness are just the punctuation marks of our personal sagas. The narrative is written every day in the small, the simple, and the common. In your tiny choices, in these tiny changes. In the unconsidered. The overlooked. The discarded. The reclaimed. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The only person in all the world who can give you pleasure, or deny it, is yourself. No matter how much we love someone, the decision to experience pleasure, and to make room for it in our lives, is an internal one. If you are resistant, you could be around the most joyous people in the world and be miserable. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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... we can no longer afford to throw away even one 'unimportant' day by not noticing the wonder of it all. We have to be willing to discover and then appreciate the authentic moments of happiness available to all of us every day. Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition. Samuel Pepys
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me! Samuel Pepys
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Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. Samuel Rogers
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The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness. Samuel Beckett
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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any. Samuel L. Jackson
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Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be. Whitney Houston
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. Wangari Maathai
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It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize. W. H. Auden
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No being can make another one happy. W. H. Auden
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. William Cobbett
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. William Cowper
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Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency. Wayne Dyer
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Abundance is about looking at life and knowing that you have everything you need for complete happiness, and then being able to celebrate each and every moment on earth. Wayne Dyer
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It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself is true. Wayne Dyer
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It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized. Wayne Dyer