983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.” — Alice Meynell

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

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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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“When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.” — Sophocles

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“Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.” — Alexander Pope

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“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.” — Franz Kafka

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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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“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.” — Blaise Pascal

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“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.” — Samuel Johnson

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“The will of man is his happiness.” — Friedrich Schiller

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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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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Happiness is no laughing matter.” — Richard Whately

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“There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” — Sophocles

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“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.” — Francis Bacon

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“Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.” — Plutarch

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“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” — Victor Hugo

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“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.” — Samuel Johnson

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“A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.” — Josh Billings

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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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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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“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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“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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