- Mankind
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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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I have drawn my sword in the present generous struggle for the rights of men, yet I am not in arms as an American, nor am I in pursuit of riches. My fortune is liberal enough, having no wife nor family, and having lived long enough to know that riches cannot ensure happiness.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
- Held
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
- Common Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, the most important factor of all for long life is a good family. When a person goes home with the wife or the kids giving him endless headaches, then it's hard for that person to enjoy a long life. I am very fortunate, because my wife Elizabeth and my obedient children are very good; they have given me happiness.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.
- Nov 07, 2020