983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.” — John Leguizamo

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“So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.” — Arthur Hiller

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“The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.” — Eleanora Duse

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“For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.” — Thomas Bulfinch

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“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.” — Philip Sidney

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“Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.” — Bar Refaeli

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“I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.” — Arizona Muse

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“Happiness is only real when shared.” — Christopher McCandless

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“We have arrived at that point of time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be a productive of happiness, private or public.” — Henry Knox

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“We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.” — Francis Wright

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“A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.” — Mary Wortley

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“Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.” — Anna Pavlova

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“The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.” — Ring Lardner

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“The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.” — Leni Riefenstahl

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“To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.” — Charles Inglis

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“The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.” — Rob Brydon

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“This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.” — Clayton Christensen

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“When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.” — Pia Toscano

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“The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.” — Clayton Christensen

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“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.” — Anthony Storr

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“Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.” — Vittorio Alfieri

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“It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.” — Sarah Orne Jewett

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“Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.” — Kaya Scodelario

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“Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.” — Giraldus Cambrensis

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“I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.” — Mary McCormack

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