- Recall
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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
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did have a very restricted, regimented life. There was a kind of happiness there, a contentment, but it was a small happiness within very clear and delineated borders.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.
- People
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
- Make
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There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the problem with the word 'happiness' is that it sounds fluffy. It sounds like something trivial that we shouldn't be concerned with.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
- Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020