983 private quotes tagged happiness

“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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“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 know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.” — Julia Ward Howe

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“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” — William James

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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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“Independence is happiness.” — Susan B. Anthony

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

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“One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“Happiness lies first of all in health.” — George William Curtis

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“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.” — Chanakya

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“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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“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.” — Bo Bennett

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“There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.” — Euripedes

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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” — Langston Hughes

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

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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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“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” — John Dewey

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

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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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“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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