983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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

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

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

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“No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.” — Graham Greene

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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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“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.” — Spike Milligan

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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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“There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.” — Kesha

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

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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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“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 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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“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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“And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.” — Adam Weishaupt

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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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“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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“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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“All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.” — William Law

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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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