983 private quotes tagged happiness

“People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.” — Carmen Electra

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“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.” — J. Donald Walters

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“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” — Maria Mitchell

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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” — Langston Hughes

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“I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.” — Tobey Maguire

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“The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.” — Walter Benjamin

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“I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.” — Sylvia Kristel

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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” — Theodore Isaac Rubin

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“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.” — Jane Austen

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“Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.” — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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“I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.” — Debbi Fields

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“So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.” — Dolley Madison

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“What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.” — Chris Evans

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“You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.” — Sergey Brin

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“No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” — Barbara de Angelis

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“There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.” — Euripedes

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“I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.” — Jamie Lee Curtis

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“The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.” — Thucydides

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“We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.” — Maxwell Maltz

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“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.” — Suze Orman

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“Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.” — Laura Schlessinger

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“Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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