Quotes about happiness
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
happiness running laughter
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
happiness spring moderation
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
happiness two people
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
happiness men highest
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
happiness cheerful social
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
happiness self trying
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
happiness character men
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
happiness giving spirit
Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
happiness instruction
Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
happiness vexation affair
A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.
happiness men alive
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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You can't buy happiness Kurt Cobain
happiness men rivers
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights. Khalil Gibran
happiness famous-inspirational giving
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
happiness success heaven
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. Jonathan Swift
happiness pain years
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue.
happiness examination definitions
If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
happiness possession deceived
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
happiness men perfect
So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
happiness laughter air
Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing? Jonathan Safran Foer
happiness positivity thinking
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
happiness sad being-happy
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
happiness attitude all-time
The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude. Napoleon Hill
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
happiness success peace
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
happiness successful kind
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
happiness uplifting peace
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Og Mandino
happiness cutting thinking
I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself. Norman Mailer
happiness mean small-pleasures
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. Norman Lear
happiness optimistic writing
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles
happiness levels satisfaction
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience. Orison Swett Marden