983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.” — Andrei Platonov

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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.” — Jose Marti

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

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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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“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 is a virtue, not its reward.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.” — Guru Nanak

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“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.” — Booth Tarkington

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“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?” — Leslie Caron

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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 does not consist in self-love.” — Joseph Butler

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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

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“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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