983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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

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“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.” — Alphonse Karr

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“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.” — John Dewey

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“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.” — Austin O'Malley

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“To buy happiness is to sell soul.” — Douglas Horton

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“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.” — Joseph Roux

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