- Effort
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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
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Bandcamp had a lot of bad and good music, but I relied on that to sort my feelings. My sadness will always be there, even in the happiness.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
- Love Is
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
- Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true I wasn't as important at Chelsea. I never demanded that. What I wanted was to be a champion, because few people get that. I succeeded. But the happiness wasn't there.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020