983 private quotes tagged happiness

“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 no laughing matter.” — Richard Whately

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.” — William Feather

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“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.” — William Blake

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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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“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” — Ambrose Bierce

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