983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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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 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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“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.” — James Madison

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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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“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.” — Johnny Carson

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“Happiness is no laughing matter.” — Richard Whately

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

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

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

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

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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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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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“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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