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- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
- Noble
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've decided, because we have a short time here, that those of us that create joy and happiness, that's a really noble thing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had to go for surgery, all the country sent positive messages. I was very happy with that, and all I want is to give back some of this happiness I received both with the national team and at my club.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family where happiness was seen as an 'extra,' a kind of frill to life - nice to have, but certainly not necessary and by no means paramount. Work was king. Suffering meant you were working hard. It made you worthy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
- Common Good
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- Nov 07, 2020