983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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

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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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“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.” — Ben Jonson

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“People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.” — Lucinda Williams

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“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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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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“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 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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“Desire is individual. Happiness is common.” — Julian Casablancas

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“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” — Ashley Montagu

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“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.” — Leo Rosten

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“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

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“The happiness of society is the end of government.” — John Adams

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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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“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.” — Arnold Bennett

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“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.” — Adam Smith

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“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.” — Daniel Boone

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“There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.” — Denis Diderot

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“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” — David Lee Roth

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