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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
– Jean de la Bruyere
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
– Walter Savage Landor
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God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.
– Red Skelton
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Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
– Emily Procter
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Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
– Andrew Weil
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Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
– Dennis Prager
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From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
– Benjamin Hoff
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
– Alastair Campbell
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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
– Aeschylus
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For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
– Thomas Bulfinch
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For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
– James Payn
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For me, love is happiness and inspiration.
– Leona Lewis
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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
– Herman Hesse
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
– Ferdinand Mount
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Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
– Jean-Paul Marat
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
– Nadia Giosia
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
– Susan Faludi
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Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
– Donatella Versace
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Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
– Carlo Collodi
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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
– Mary MacLane
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
– Charles de Montesquieu
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Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
– Daniel Kahneman
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Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
– Gregg Easterbrook
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Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.
– Shahrukh Khan
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
– Bertolt Brecht
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
– Dennis Prager
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Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
– Merrill Markoe
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Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
– Meir Kahane
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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
– Joseph Butler
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Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
– Sir Arthur Helps
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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
– Richard Bach
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Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
– Carrie Underwood
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Every age has its happiness and troubles.
– Jeanne Calment
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Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
– Guy Finley
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
– Fiona Shaw
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Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.
– Dyan Cannon
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Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
– Russell M. Nelson
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Each person is living for himself his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
– Harry Browne
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
– Alice Walker
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
– Victor Hugo
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
– Plutarch
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
– Julian Casablancas
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
– Henri Matisse
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Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
– Mason Cooley
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Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
– Dionne Warwick
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
– Polly Toynbee
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
– Bertrand Russell
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Clothes are my drug. I love Camden market - I have so many vintage pieces from there it's unbelievable. Clothes are really important to me, they give me that feeling of happiness. I love being a bit free with it all and not giving myself rules.
– Kaya Scodelario
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.
– George Santayana
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
– Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'
– Alastair Campbell
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.
– Lafcadio Hearn
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
– William Shakespeare
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But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
– Richard Cobden
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
– Victoria Jackson
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Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
– Donna Rice
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
– Abdul Kalam
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
– Omar Khayyam
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Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.
– Harry Lauder
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As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
– Anthony Trollope
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
– Ioan Gruffudd
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As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.
– Amber Riley
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As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
– Dan Stevens
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As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
– Bharati Mukherjee
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And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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And perfect happiness? Man, that's a... the pool is about 92 degrees, the Jacuzzi is about 102 and an avocado farm.
– Jamie Foxx
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And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
– Aeschylus
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
– Adam Weishaupt
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An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.
– Orson Pratt
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
– Clara Barton
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
– Lydia M. Child
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
– Baltasar Gracian
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Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
– Mario Batali
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Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
– Anna Pavlova
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
– Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
– William Law
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
– Baruch Spinoza
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
– Laurence Sterne
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
– John Stuart Mill
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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
– William James
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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.
– John Buchanan Robinson
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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
– George Eliot
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
– Stendhal
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
– Bette Davis
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
– George Santayana
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A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
– Tom Wilson
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A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
– James Madison
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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
– Theodor Adorno
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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
– Soren Kierkegaard
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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
– Elsa Schiaparelli
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A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
– Sydney Smith
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
– Cab Calloway
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
– John Adams
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Joseph Addison
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