983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.” — Don Marquis

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“I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?” — Joni Mitchell

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“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.” — David Sarnoff

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“Happiness is the longing for repetition.” — Milan Kundera

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“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” — Jane Austen

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“One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.” — Isabelle Eberhardt

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“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.” — Anthony Trollope

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“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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“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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“True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.” — William J. H. Boetcker

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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 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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“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” — Harold Kushner

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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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“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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“Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.” — Fiona Shaw

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

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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 adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.” — Maurice Sendak

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

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