983 private quotes tagged happiness

“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.” — Thomas Huxley

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“The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.” — Ellen DeGeneres

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“No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” — Barbara de Angelis

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“To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?” — Christopher Hampton

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“Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.” — Sam Levenson

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“I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.” — Dan Savage

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“Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” — William Morris

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“The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.” — Herbert Read

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“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.” — David Mamet

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“You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.” — Sergey Brin

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“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison

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“Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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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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“I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.” — Michael J. Fox

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“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.” — Leon Kass

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