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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
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is our country and our home and our families. We can decide that one person's right to bear arms does not come at the expense of a neighbor's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Nov 07, 2020
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
- Nov 07, 2020
We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
- Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
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- Nov 07, 2020