983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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

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“Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.” — Oscar Levant

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“I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.” — Debbi Fields

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“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.” — J. Donald Walters

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

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

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

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“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.” — William Ellery Channing

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“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” — Denis Waitley

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“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.” — John Dryden

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“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.” — Mortimer Adler

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“It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.” — Kin Hubbard

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“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.” — Rush Limbaugh

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