- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness Quotes
On contentment, satisfaction, and what happiness really needs.
This set gathers reflections on happiness as a personal responsibility rather than an external prize, including the idea that no single achievement should be allowed to determine someone's mood. For related feelings, see Joy quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Diminish
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- Nov 07, 2020
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, flowers are happiness.
- Good Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.
- Fatty
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- Nov 07, 2020
U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
- Discovers
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've become a true Muslim. It's giving me happiness. It's made me become content as a man and helped me to grow. I've just got faith in it, and it has definitely helped me become the man I am today.
- Enraged
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- Nov 07, 2020