- Money
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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
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
- Envious
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
- Object
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020