983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” — Iris Murdoch

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“I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.” — David Duchovny

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“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.” — Anthony Trollope

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“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.” — Thornton Wilder

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“Happiness is always a coincidence.” — Jose Bergamin

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“Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.” — Dennis Prager

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“I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.” — Norodom Sihamoni

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“We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.” — Mary Oliver

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“Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan

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“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.” — William E. Gladstone

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“You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.” — Percy Ross

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“You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.” — Franz Schubert

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“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.” — Euripedes

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“To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.” — J. B. Priestley

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“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.” — Elsa Schiaparelli

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“Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.” — Holbrook Jackson

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“That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.” — Willa Cather

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“It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.” — Herman Hesse

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“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.” — Hugh Laurie

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“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?” — Jonathan Safran Foer

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“Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.” — Ellen Pompeo

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“It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.” — Elsie de Wolfe

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“Happiness? No, it's not there for me.” — Robert Mapplethorpe

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“I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.” — Lillie Langtry

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“My life has run from misery to happiness.” — Loretta Lynn

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