- Human
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
- Sadness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.
- Esteemed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
- Gardening
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.
- Good Works
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- Nov 07, 2020