983 private quotes tagged happiness

“From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.” — Dennis Prager

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“We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.” — Emma Thompson

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“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” — Storm Jameson

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“Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.” — Andrea Corr

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“You can be happy where you are.” — Joel Osteen

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“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.” — William Samuel Johnson

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“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.” — Alice Walker

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“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.” — William E. Gladstone

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“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” — Ovid

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“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.” — Clare Boothe Luce

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“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.” — Linus Pauling

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“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” — Andre Maurois

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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus

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“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” — Richard Bach

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“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.” — Richard Bach

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“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.” — John Barrymore

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“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” — Lydia M. Child

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“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” — Alexandre Dumas

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“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.” — Julia Roberts

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“It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil.” — James Smithson

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“Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.” — Andy Rooney

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“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.” — Bette Davis

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“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand

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“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” — Bernard Meltzer

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