983 private quotes tagged happiness

“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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“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.” — Chanakya

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

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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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“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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“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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“The right to happiness is fundamental.” — Anna Pavlova

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“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” — Ernest Dimnet

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“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.” — Alfred de Musset

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“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” — William Dean Howells

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“Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.” — Frank McCourt

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“Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.” — Benjamin Spock

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“While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.” — Dolley Madison

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“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.” — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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“To describe happiness is to diminish it.” — Stendhal

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“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.” — George Sand

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“Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.” — Rollo May

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“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” — Democritus

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