983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.” — Sydney Smith

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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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“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.” — Henri Matisse

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

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“Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.” — Gregg Easterbrook

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

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“This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.” — Herman Hesse

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“Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.” — Irving Babbitt

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“I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.” — Havelock Ellis

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“The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.” — Jeremy Bentham

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“Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!” — Lawrence G. Lovasik

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“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” — Helen Gurley Brown

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“I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” — Adam Smith

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“I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.” — Pierre Corneille

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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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“To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.” — Hermann Hesse

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“Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.” — Billy Wilder

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“The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.” — Ogden Nash

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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 nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.” — Zoe Saldana

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“The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.” — Gary Larson

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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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