983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.” — William Bennett

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“Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.” — John Grierson

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“Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.” — Joseph Butler

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“The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.” — Joseph Butler

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“The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.” — Joseph Butler

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“My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.” — Emmylou Harris

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“I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.” — Michael Landon

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“Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.” — Barry Sanders

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“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.” — Matthew Arnold

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“Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.” — Greg Anderson

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“Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.” — Ben Nicholson

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“It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.” — Daniel Keys Moran

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“The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.” — Al Green

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“The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.” — Gilbert Murray

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“I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.” — Richard Eyre

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“You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.” — Andrew Sullivan

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“Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.” — Donatella Versace

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“We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” — Todd Akin

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“I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.” — Princess Margaret

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“Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.” — Aron Ralston

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“According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.” — John Buchanan Robinson

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“Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.” — Marguerite Gardiner

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“Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“To me, the most important thing is happiness.” — Sheryl Swoopes

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“Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.” — Richard Ford

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