983 private quotes tagged happiness

“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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“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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“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.” — Dennis Prager

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.” — Julia Roberts

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

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“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.” — Anna Pavlova

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

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

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“The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.” — Richard Eyre

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“Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.” — Ogden Nash

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