983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

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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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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.” — Samuel Johnson

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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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“True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” — Helen Keller

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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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“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.” — James Madison

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“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Happiness is no laughing matter.” — Richard Whately

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

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“And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.” — Aeschylus

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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

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“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.” — Thomas Paine

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“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.” — Aeschylus

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“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.” — Victor Hugo

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“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” — Wayne Gretzky

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“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.” — George Eliot

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