- Life
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
- Dichotomy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that's really cool for me about Miami Beach is you have this dichotomy between sunlight and family and happiness and innocence and then at night, darker, stranger mob conspiracy stuff sort of comes out. It seems like a storytelling engine. You can just keep writing about how those two worlds smash into each other.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People tend to think I'm funny and fluffy, but I can switch on a sixpence from extreme happiness to utter despair. I'm aware that doesn't make it easy for people sometimes.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Declaration calls us to recognize the inherent equality of all people. And when it becomes unmistakably evident that a government is denying the governed life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it's the right of people to establish a new government to secure these unalienable rights.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is about looking for happiness and God. That was a sentiment shared by my dear friend Ronald Reagan.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020