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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.
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Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
- Loneliness
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I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
- Pursuit Of Happiness
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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
- Life
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It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.
- Love Is
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Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.
- Increased
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Joys divided are increased.
- Safe
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
- Desire
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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
- Good
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
- Man
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