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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
- Dream
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
- Liberty
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Our evenly matched rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness require an equal paycheck.
- Else
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I don't need to be validated by anybody else; I don't need to be accepted or approved of for my happiness.
- Love
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Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.
- Pain
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
- Mother
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Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'
- Life
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Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
- Farthest
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
- Man
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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
- Look
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Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
- Life
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The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
- Health
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
- My Own
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I'll do what I've got to do in my own career and my own life. For my own happiness. I'm not gonna be bent over a barrel and told what to do.
- Me
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Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.
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