983 private quotes tagged happiness

“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.” — Alfred de Musset

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“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” — Ernest Dimnet

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“The right to happiness is fundamental.” — Anna Pavlova

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“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” — Walter Savage Landor

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“How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.” — William Ellery Channing

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“If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.” — Leon Kass

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“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.” — F. H. Bradley

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“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” — William Morris

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“Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.” — Sam Levenson

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“One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” — Joseph Addison

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“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” — William James

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“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.” — Charlie Chaplin

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“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.” — Chanakya

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“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.” — Dale Carnegie

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“I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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