- Happy
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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
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020