Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
| Jean Jacques Rousseau |
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
| Robert Frost |
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
| Robert Frost |
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Happiness isn’t always doing what you want to do; it’s doing what you don’t want to do, and being glad you did it.
| Jessie Evens Smith |
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Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.
| Robert Green Ingersoll |
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Happiness is the delicate balance of what one is and what one has.
| F. H. Denison |
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Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
| Margaret Lee Runbeck |
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Happiness is not a reward—it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment—it is a result.
| R. G. Ingersoll |
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
| Henrik Ibsen |
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Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much.
| Channing Pollock |
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
| John Lubbock |
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
| Bertrand Russell |
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
| Ayn Rand |
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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
| Anthelme Brillat-Savarin |
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Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
| Ann Radcliffe |
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
| Anatole France |
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
| Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
| Al Batt |
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
| Abraham Lincoln |
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness.
| Thomas Jefferson |
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so.
| William Ralph Inge |
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Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
| Dave Gardner |
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
| Benjamin Franklin |
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Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.
| Harrison Ford |
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
| Wayne Dyer |
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Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it's too late. The time for happiness is today not tomorrow.
| Paul Dunn |
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Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with man's outward circumstance...A man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
| William Barclay |
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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
| William Boyd |
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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
| Mildred Barthel |
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So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
| John Sutherland Bonnell |
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
| Marcus Aurelius |
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Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy!
| Anne Frank |
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Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
| John Sheerin |
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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
| Margaret Lee Runbeck |
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The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
| Victor Hugo |
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The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
| Victor Hugo |
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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
| Alice Meynell |
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The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
| Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
| Lord Byron |
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
| Martha Washington |
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Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
| Mary Baker Eddy |
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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
| Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .
| John Templeton |
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It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
| Sharon Salzberg |
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Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
| Robert Heinlein |
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
| Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
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This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
| Charlie Brown |
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
| Logan Pearsall |
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
| Margaret Young |
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
| Mark Twain |
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Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
| Hazelmarie Elliott |
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
| John Barrymore |
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
| Jackson Browne |
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
| John Barrymore |
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
| James Openheim |
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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
| Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
| Norm Papernick |
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
| Robertson Davies |
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Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
| Cynthia Nelms |
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Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
| Palmer Sondreal |
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If you want to be happy, be.
| Leo Tolstoy |
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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
| Jacques Prevert |
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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
| Benjamin Franklin |
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Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
| Hubert H. Humphrey |
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All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.
| Horace Friess |
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
| Henry David Thoreau |
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That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
| Henry David Thoreau |
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
| George Burns |
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Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
| Helen Keller |
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
| George Sand |
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
| George Burns |
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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
| Francoise De Motteville |
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
| Fran Lebowitz |
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The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.
| Felix Adler |
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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
| Eric Hoffer |
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
| Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
| Edith Wharton |
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
| Edward De Bono |
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Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication.
The religions of humanity should be a unifying force, for all the great religions reveal a basic unity in ethics. Whether it be Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism or Confucianism, all grow out of a sense of the sacredness of human life. This moral sensitivity to the sacredness of human personality -- the Commandments not to kill, not to hurt, not to put a stumbling block in the path of the blind, not to neglect the widow or the fatherless, not to exploit the servant or the worker -- all this can be found in the Bibles of humanity, in all the sacred books. All teach in substance: "Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you." There is, then, a basic unity among the great religions in the matter of ethics. True, there are religious philosophies which turn people away from the world, from the here and now, concentrating life-purposes on salvation for one's self or a mystic union with some supernatural reality. But most of the great religions agree on mercy, justice, love -- here on earth. And they agree that the great task is to move people from apathy, from an acceptance of the evils in life, to face the possibilities of the world, to make life sweet for one another instead of bitter. This is the unifying ethical task of all the religions -- yes, of all the philosophies of humankind. There is no need to force our own theological points of view upon one another or to insist that the moral life grows out of final, absolute authority.
The religions of humanity should be a unifying force, for all the great religions reveal a basic unity in ethics. Whether it be Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism or Confucianism, all grow out of a sense of the sacredness of human life. This moral sensitivity to the sacredness of human personality -- the Commandments not to kill, not to hurt, not to put a stumbling block in the path of the blind, not to neglect the widow or the fatherless, not to exploit the servant or the worker -- all this can be found in the Bibles of humanity, in all the sacred books. All teach in substance: "Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you." There is, then, a basic unity among the great religions in the matter of ethics. True, there are religious philosophies which turn people away from the world, from the here and now, concentrating life-purposes on salvation for one's self or a mystic union with some supernatural reality. But most of the great religions agree on mercy, justice, love -- here on earth. And they agree that the great task is to move people from apathy, from an acceptance of the evils in life, to face the possibilities of the world, to make life sweet for one another instead of bitter. This is the unifying ethical task of all the religions -- yes, of all the philosophies of humankind. There is no need to force our own theological points of view upon one another or to insist that the moral life grows out of final, absolute authority.
| Algernon Black |
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The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
| Allan Chalmers |
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
| Baruch Spinoza |
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
| Albert Schweitzer |
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
| Albert Camus |
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
| Baruch Spinoza |
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
| Albert Schweitzer |
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
| Anne Frank |
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
| Albert Camus |
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
| Albert Camus |
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I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. (960 C.E.)
| ABD ER-Rahman |
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As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again! No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!
| Scarlett O'Hara |
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