983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.” — Tryon Edwards

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“But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.” — Chris Evans

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“If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.” — Evita Peron

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“I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.” — Bethenny Frankel

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“The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.” — Walter Annenberg

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“You find happiness where you find it.” — Anna Paquin

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“The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.” — Daniel Dennett

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“The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.” — Hal Sparks

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“I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.” — Chris Evans

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“History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.” — Wendell Willkie

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“I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.” — Gisele Bundchen

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“Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.” — William Cobbett

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“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.” — Jacques Prevert

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“How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.” — Paul Sweeney

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“Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.” — Henry Fielding

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“Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.” — Rosalia de Castro

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“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.” — Norman Lear

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“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.” — Madame de Stael

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“Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.” — Alexander Smith

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“We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.” — Mary Astell

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“I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.” — Daniel Johns

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“I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.” — Josh Lucas

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“Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.” — Polly Toynbee

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“The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.” — Emanuel Swedenborg

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“I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.” — Ezra Miller

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