983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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

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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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“What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.” — Chris Evans

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

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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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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.” — F. H. Bradley

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

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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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“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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“Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.” — Robert Orben

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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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“This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.” — Michael Korda

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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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“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.” — William Ellery Channing

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“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” — Walter Savage Landor

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