983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.” — Adam Smith

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“Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.” — Arnold Bennett

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“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

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“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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“Independence is happiness.” — Susan B. Anthony

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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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“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” — Leo Buscaglia

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

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“The most simple things can bring the most happiness.” — Izabella Scorupco

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

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“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.” — Mary Baker Eddy

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

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“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” — Thomas Merton

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“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” — John Stuart Mill

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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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