- Duty
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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
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
- Exist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made.
- Nov 07, 2020
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
- Pleasure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- Fulfilment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020