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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
– Epictetus
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
– Euripides
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
– Isabelle Eberhardt
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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
– Monica Edwards
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
– Euripedes
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There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
– Euripedes
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
– William Feather
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
– Henry Fielding
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
– Malcolm Forbes
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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
– Henry Ford
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
– Anatole France
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
– Benjamin Franklin
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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
– Sigmund Freud
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
– Robert Frost
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I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
– Brenda Fassie
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
– Francois Fenelon
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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
– Rachel Field
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I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
– Debbi Fields
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
– Edward Gibbon
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
– Andre Gide
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
– Andre Gide
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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
– William E. Gladstone
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
– Maxim Gorky
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Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
– Antonio Gala
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The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
– Olivia Goldsmith
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
– John Gunther
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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
– Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
– Harry Harrison
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
– Ernest Hemingway
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
– Ernest Hemingway
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
– Heraclitus
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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
– Robert Herrick
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
– Eric Hoffer
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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
– Thomas Hood
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
– Bob Hope
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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
– Horace
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
– Leigh Hunt
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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
– Winifred Holtby
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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
– William Dean Howells
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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
– Frank McKinney Hubbard
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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
– Francis Hutcheson
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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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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.
– Holbrook Jackson
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
– Douglas William Jerrold
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
– Franz Kafka
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
– Immanuel Kant
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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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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
– Alphonse Karr
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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
– Alphonse Karr
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
– Helen Keller
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
– Helen Keller
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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
– Michael Korda
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Happiness is the longing for repetition.
– Milan Kundera
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
– Milan Kundera
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I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
– Islom Karimov
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Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
– Islom Karimov
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
– Rabbi Harold Kushner
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
– The Dalai Lama
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
– The Dalai Lama
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
– The Dalai Lama
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
– Walter Savage Landor
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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
– Doug Larson
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
– Sam Levenson
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
– Lawrence G. Lovasik
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Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
– Amy Lowell
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
– John Lubbock
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
– Gary Larson
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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
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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. LeGuin
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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
– Lucan
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Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
– Annni-Frid Lyngstad
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Money cannot buy happiness.
– Annni-Frid Lyngstad
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
– Maxwell Maltz
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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
– Don Marquis
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
– Don Marquis
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
– Andre Maurois
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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
– Andre Maurois
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
– Rollo May
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Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
– Bernard Meltzer
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.
– Thomas Merton
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
– John Stuart Mill
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
– Ashley Montagu
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
– Ashley Montagu
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
– Charles Morgan
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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