983 private quotes tagged happiness

“You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.” — Vivien Leigh

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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.” — William Cowper

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“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” — Spike Milligan

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“Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.” — Theodor Adorno

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“Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand

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“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.” — Andre Maurois

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“Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.” — Agnes Martin

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“Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.” — James Allen

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“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.” — John Lubbock

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“A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.” — Theodor Adorno

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“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” — Rita Mae Brown

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“Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.” — Shahrukh Khan

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“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.” — Alphonse Karr

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“Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” — Jim Ryun

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“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” — Harold Kushner

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“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.” — Bernard Meltzer

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“Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.” — Douglas Horton

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“Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.” — Irving Babbitt

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“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.” — Emile M. Cioran

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“Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.” — Jose Marti

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