983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.” — John Dewey

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“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.” — Chanakya

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“Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.” — John Stossel

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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” — Albert Schweitzer

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“Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.” — Hermann Hesse

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“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” — Zhuangzi

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“Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.” — Red Skelton

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“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.” — Michael J. Fox

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“If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.” — Epictetus

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“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.” — Denis Waitley

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“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” — Immanuel Kant

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“When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.” — Suze Orman

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“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.” — Richard Bach

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“Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.” — William S. Burroughs

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“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.” — Dante Alighieri

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“I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” — Nana Mouskouri

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“When ambition ends, happiness begins.” — Thomas Merton

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“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.” — Maria Montessori

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“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.” — Immanuel Kant

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“Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.” — William James

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“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

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