- 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
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Equal Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any critic that takes a swipe at 'Full House' is like taking the family dog. The dog brings you joy and happiness and makes you forget your problems, and that's all 'Full House' does. Literally, taking a potshot at that show is like taking the family dog.
- Pursuit Of Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
- Taste
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?
- Enshrined
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of us will never feel we've quite arrived, then the vision becomes exclusionary.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020