983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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“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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“It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.” — Robert Herrick

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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 perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.” — James Van Der Zee

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

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“I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.” — Giacomo Casanova

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

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

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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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“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.” — Oswald Chambers

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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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“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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“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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“Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.” — Maurice Sendak

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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 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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“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” — J. D. Salinger

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

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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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“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.” — Jacques Yves Cousteau

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“To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.” — Christina Ricci

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“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” — Ingrid Bergman

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