Quotes about happiness
happiness believe enjoy
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it. Moliere
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. Millicent Fenwick
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Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. Katherine Mansfield
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common. Julian Casablancas
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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. Kitty Kelley
happiness happy
He and I have a long relationship, so it makes me happy to see him here.
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Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length Robert Frost
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Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.
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Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing. Michael Leunig
happiness punishment
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. Robert Green Ingersoll
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Happiness is largely a matter of self-hypnotism. You can think yourself happy or you can think yourself miserable. Dorothy Dix
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Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it Mark Twain
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. Jonathan Swift
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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
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Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another. Ivan Turgenev
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How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. Iris Murdoch
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Iris Murdoch
happiness reading animal
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Each meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger. Iris Murdoch
happiness way
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.
happiness simple
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
happiness people mind
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
happiness attitude book
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. Harry S Truman
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant
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Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy J. K. Rowling
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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. J. K. Rowling
happiness men honest
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness. H. L. Mencken
happiness writing men
To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. H. L. Mencken
happiness marriage men
Happiness is peace after strife, the overcoming of difficulties, the feeling of security and well-being. The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H. L. Mencken
happiness want want-to-be-happy
Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy? H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
happiness destiny happy-times
The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times. Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life. Jeanne Calment