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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
- Man
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It is essential that the young people of this country learn to respect the right of every man and woman to seek his or her happiness with minimal interference from the government.
- Opportunity
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
- Money
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I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
- Nature
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
- Purpose
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- Happy
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
- Never
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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
- Peace
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
- Life
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Life
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I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020