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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
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There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
– Deborah Norville
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
– Sivananda
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There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.
– Kesha
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
– Maria Mitchell
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
– Chanakya
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There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
– Jose Marti
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The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.
– Ellen DeGeneres
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The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
– Carl Jung
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
– Candace Bushnell
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The will of man is his happiness.
– Friedrich Schiller
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
– Frederick Douglass
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The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
– David Wilmot
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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
– William H. Seward
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The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
– Mortimer Adler
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
– Hannah Arendt
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
– Arthur C. Brooks
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
– William Morris
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The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.
– Rob Brydon
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
– Joseph Butler
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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
– Herbert Read
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
– Henry David Thoreau
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The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
– Rod Parsley
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
– Bertrand Russell
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
– F. H. Bradley
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
– Daniel Dennett
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
– Carl Sandburg
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The right to happiness is fundamental.
– Anna Pavlova
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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
– Loretta Swit
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
– Alexander Alekhine
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
– Joseph Butler
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
– Hal Sparks
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The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
– Clayton Christensen
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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.
– Ring Lardner
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The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.
– Paula Cole
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The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
– Al Green
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The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
– Izabella Scorupco
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
– Ogden Nash
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The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.
– Donny Osmond
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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
– Gilbert Murray
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The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
– Gertrude Jekyll
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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
– Charles Van Doren
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The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
– Rutherford B. Hayes
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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
– Marguerite Duras
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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
– Jacques Yves Cousteau
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
– Elbert Hubbard
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
– Chanakya
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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 greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
– Walter Annenberg
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
– Madame de Stael
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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
– Thomas Huxley
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
– Omar Bongo
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The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
– Bryant McGill
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
– Karl Marx
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The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families - happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.
– Kay Hagan
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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
– Sidney Sheldon
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The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
– Jesse Ventura
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The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.
– William Godwin
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
– Thomas Jefferson
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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.
– Quentin Crisp
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The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
– Heinrich Mann
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The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.
– Richard Eyre
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The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
– Seal
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
– Irving Babbitt
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
– Joseph Addison
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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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Success can create more madness than happiness.
– Billy Ocean
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
– Samuel Johnson
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
– Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
– Charles Van Doren
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Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
– John Grierson
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Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
– Dita Von Teese
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So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
– Rick Derringer
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So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
– Olivia Wilde
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So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
– DJ Jazzy Jeff
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
– David Herbert Lawrence
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So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
– Duncan Sheik
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So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
– Arthur Hiller
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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
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
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Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing I've ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I can't go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective.
– Chris Webber
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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
– Giraldus Cambrensis
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
– Irving Babbitt
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Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
– Louise Hart
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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
– Tryon Edwards
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Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.
– Glen Hansard
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
– Oliver Goldsmith
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
– Samuel Johnson
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Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.
– Samuel Chase
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
– Wayne Gretzky
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