983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.” — Leo Rosten

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“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” — Ashley Montagu

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“Desire is individual. Happiness is common.” — Julian Casablancas

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“Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.” — John Stuart Mill

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“People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.” — Lucinda Williams

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“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.” — Ben Jonson

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“It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.” — Kin Hubbard

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“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.” — Desiderius Erasmus

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“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.” — John Dryden

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“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Happiness does not consist in self-love.” — Joseph Butler

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“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.” — Booth Tarkington

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“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.” — Jose Marti

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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.” — Robert A. Heinlein

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“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.” — Andrei Platonov

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“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.” — Joseph Roux

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“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.” — Austin O'Malley

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“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” — Democritus

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“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.” — George Sand

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“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.” — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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“We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.” — Frank McCourt

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“The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.” — William Dean Howells

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