983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.” — Sophocles

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“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” — Robert Frost

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“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.” — Helen Keller

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus

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“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.” — Mason Cooley

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“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” — Dale Carnegie

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“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.” — Paulo Coelho

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“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.” — Josh Billings

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“Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” — Ayn Rand

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“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” — Confucius

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“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.” — Tom Wilson

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“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.” — Ayn Rand

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle

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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” — Carl Sandburg

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