983 private quotes tagged happiness

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

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

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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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“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.” — Channing Pollock

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“We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.” — Samuel Johnson

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“You can be happy where you are.” — Joel Osteen

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“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.” — Euripides

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“Never mind your happiness do your duty.” — Peter Drucker

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“The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.” — Thucydides

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“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“The groundwork of all happiness is health.” — Leigh Hunt

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“I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.” — Jamie Lee Curtis

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“I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.” — Tobey Maguire

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“I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.” — Julia Ward Howe

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“Independence is happiness.” — Susan B. Anthony

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“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“Happiness lies first of all in health.” — George William Curtis

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“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.” — Thomas Huxley

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