- Hate
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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
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives chained to a desk. We may instead find ourselves rueing the time we didn't spend watching our children grow, or with our loved ones, or travelling, or on the cultural or leisure pursuits that bring us happiness.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
- Suffering
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
- Big Ones
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020