983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified.” — Polly Toynbee

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“When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.” — Daniel Kahneman

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“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.” — Hosea Ballou

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“Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.” — Johann Pestalozzi

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“Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.” — Guy Laliberte

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“I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.” — Paul Thomas Anderson

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“I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.” — Criss Angel

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“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” — Hosea Ballou

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“The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.” — Candace Bushnell

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“The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.” — J. Donald Walters

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“Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.” — Emily Procter

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“Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.” — Polly Toynbee

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“Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks and so may no one touch you who loves you.” — Eugenio Montale

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“It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.” — Taraji P. Henson

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“You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.” — Candace Bushnell

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“My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.” — Horatio Nelson

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“While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” — Sarah Vowell

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“We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.” — Ethel Percy Andrus

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“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.” — Tracy Kidder

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“The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.” — Paula Cole

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“I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.” — Jamie Lee Curtis

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“The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.” — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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“For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.” — Herman Hesse

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“It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.” — Hilary Duff

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“Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.” — Eric Ripert

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