983 private quotes tagged happiness

“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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“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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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.” — William Cowper

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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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“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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“The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.” — Hannah Arendt

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

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

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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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“Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.” — David O. McKay

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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, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.” — George A. Smith

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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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“The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.” — Quentin Crisp

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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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“I don't know the true meaning of happiness.” — Jonathan Davis

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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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