- 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
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.
- Foolish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of Satan's most frequently used deceptions is the notion that the commandments of God are meant to restrict freedom and limit happiness.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020