Quotes on happiness
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Quotes
All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
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Vicki Baum Quotes
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
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William C. Feather Quotes
Skipping exercises your happiness muscles.
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Jessi Lane Adams Quotes
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
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Don Herold Quotes
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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C. P. Snow Quotes
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
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Palmer Sondreal Quotes
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
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Georges Duhamel Quotes
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
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Gretta Brooker Palmer Quotes
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.
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Author Unknown Quotes
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Agnes Repplier Quotes
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
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Horace Quotes
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
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Josh Billings Quotes
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
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Anton Chekhov Quotes
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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Lady Marguerite Blessington Quotes
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen.
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Abd-El-Raham Quotes
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
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Sophocles Quotes
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
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Robert Anthony Quotes
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Jumping for joy is good exercise.
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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
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Werner Erhard Quotes
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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C.P. Snow Quotes
Happiness is usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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Thomas Szasz Quotes
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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Hosea Ballou Quotes
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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William R. Inge Quotes
What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.
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Kitty O'Neill Collins Quotes
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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Charles Kingsley Quotes
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
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Don Marquis Quotes
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Joseph Addison Quotes
Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
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John Fisher Quotes
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
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Janet Lane Quotes
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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Albert Camus Quotes
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
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Frederich Nietzsche Quotes
Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.
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Emily Logan Decens Quotes
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
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Johnny Carson Quotes
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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Thornton Wilder Quotes
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
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Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
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Edith Wharton Quotes
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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Berke Breathed Quotes
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.
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Charles Gow Quotes
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
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Booth Tarkington Quotes
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
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Robertson Davies Quotes
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
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Norm Papernick Quotes
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
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Author Unknown Quotes
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Dalai Lama Quotes
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
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Johann Pestalozzi Quotes
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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William C. Feather Quotes
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
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Sophocles Quotes
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
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Guillaume Apollinaire Quotes
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
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Woody Allen Quotes
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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Walter Savage Landor Quotes
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Epictetus Quotes
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
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Robert S. Lynd Quotes
One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
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Eugene O'Neill Quotes
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
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J. D. Salinger Quotes
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.
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Author Unknown Quotes
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
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Bernard de Fontenelle Quotes
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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Andrew Delbanco Quotes
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
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Frank McKinney Hubbard Quotes
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
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James Openheim Quotes
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
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Cynthia Nelms Quotes
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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Happiness is a form of courage.
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Holbrook Jackson Quotes
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
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Doug Larson Quotes
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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Phillips Brooks Quotes
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
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Taisen Deshimaru Quotes
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Robert Frost Quotes
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
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Doug Larson Quotes
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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V.S. Pritchett Quotes
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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J. D. Salinger Quotes
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
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Margaret Young Quotes
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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Ingrid Bergman Quotes