Quotes about happiness
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Happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera
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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
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Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. Joseph B. Wirthlin
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. Joseph Addison
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever. Jose Saramago
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic. Kevin Bacon
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An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
happiness thinking equanimity
The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.
happiness lying sides
Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
happiness quality talent
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. Joe Walsh
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. Joanne Harris
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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do. James Taylor
happiness success laughter
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. James Thurber
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It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. James Smithson
happiness commitment goal
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes. Norman Vincent Peale
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
happiness happy inspiration
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
happiness life-lesson stress
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.