983 private quotes tagged happiness

“It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.” — Adrian Grenier

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

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

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

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

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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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“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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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“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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“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.” — Immanuel Kant

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“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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“I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.” — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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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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“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” — J. D. Salinger

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“Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.” — Stendhal

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