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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
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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
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Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
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It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
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The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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Happiness is state of mind.
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Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.
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There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
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- Nov 07, 2020