983 private quotes tagged happiness

“I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.” — Coretta Scott King

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

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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 in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” — Jane Austen

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“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.” — Gustave Flaubert

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

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“Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.” — Conor Oberst

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

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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 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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“People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.” — Jon Huntsman, Jr.

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

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“An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.” — Euripides

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“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.” — Jeremy Bentham

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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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“The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.” — Olivia Goldsmith

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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 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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“What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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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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