983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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“I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.” — Arthur Rimbaud

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“Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.” — Alphonse de Lamartine

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“Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.” — Dionne Warwick

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“One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.” — Gustave Flaubert

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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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“We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.” — Red Skelton

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“Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.” — Herbert Spencer

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“Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.” — Laurence Sterne

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“For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.” — Jimmy Carter

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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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“I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.” — Harlan Coben

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

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

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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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“He who avoids complaint invites happiness.” — Abu Bakr

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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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“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.” — Jonathan Edwards

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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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“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.” — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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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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“The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.” — Jesse Ventura

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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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