983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” — James Barrie

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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.” — Walt Whitman

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“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha

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“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” — Dalai Lama

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“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” — Jim Rohn

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“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.” — Anatole France

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“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.” — Gustave Flaubert

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“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

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“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.” — Peabo Bryson

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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama

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“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“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.” — Sigmund Freud

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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — Dalai Lama

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“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

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“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

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“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” — George Orwell

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“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.” — George Orwell

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“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” — Dale Carnegie

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“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.” — Brandon Boyd

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“You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.” — John Mayer

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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” — Buddha

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