- Love
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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
- Seek
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
- Nov 07, 2020
People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to increase our own happiness, we need to invest in growing the community happiness and also take care of the whole, of Mother Earth.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most people, I have several pet subjects - that may or may not be interesting to other people. Don't get me started on happiness, or habits, or children's literature, or Winston Churchill, unless you really want to talk about it.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
For quotes, I have one document for general quotes; the other for happiness-related quotes, which I use for the 'Moment of Happiness,' my daily emails of happiness quotes.
- Small
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as much as we try to find the 'Bluebird of Happiness,' we're also plagued by those small but pesky 'Pigeons of Discontent.'
- Happy Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is that outer order contributes to inner calm. More than it should.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date studies.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020