983 private quotes tagged happiness

“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.” — André Gide

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“There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Where fear is, happiness is not.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” — Albert Einstein

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“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Edmund Burke

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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.” — Mark Twain

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“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.” — Henry Ford

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“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.” — Logan P. Smith

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“All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.” — Lord Byron

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“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” — Albert Camus

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“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.” — Albert Camus

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“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.” — Max Planck

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“Happiness is no laughing matter.” — Richard Whately

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