Happiness Quotes
– Fontenelle
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– Roy M. Goodman
– Elbert Hubbard
– The Laws of Manu
– Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
– James Oppenheim
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
– Laurence J. Peter
– Alexander Pope
– Margaret Lee Runbeck
– Albert Schweitzer
– George Bernard Shaw
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
– Sophocles
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– Chuck Palahniuk
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
– John Mayer
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Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
– Colin Hay
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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.
– Paul Ryan
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– Bernard Loiseau
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
– Benjamin Carson
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
– Sivananda
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– Henry David Thoreau
– Thomas Huxley
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
– Alastair Campbell
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
– Guru Nanak
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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
– Chanakya
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My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
– Jennifer Garner
– Clara Schumann
– David Mamet
– Denzel Washington
– Dolley Madison
I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work.
– Dominic Monaghan
– Sylvia Kristel
Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
– Beth Ditto
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– Oscar Levant
– Blaise Pascal
– Dale Carnegie
– Bertrand Russell