983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!” — William Hazlitt

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“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.” — Edward Gibbon

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“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.” — J. Donald Walters

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“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.” — Eustace Budgell

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“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” — Bill Vaughan

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“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” — Honore de Balzac

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“As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.” — Samuel Richardson

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“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.” — Nicole Kidman

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“God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.” — Billy Graham

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“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.” — Immanuel Kant

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“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.” — Euripides

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“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.” — Daniel Boone

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“The happiness of society is the end of government.” — John Adams

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“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.” — Rush Limbaugh

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“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.” — William Ellery Channing

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“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

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“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?” — Leslie Caron

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“To buy happiness is to sell soul.” — Douglas Horton

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“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.” — Alphonse Karr

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“To describe happiness is to diminish it.” — Stendhal

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“Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.” — Benjamin Spock

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“Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.” — Robert Orben

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“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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