- Government
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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
Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.
- Habitual
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
- Mercy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The moral and political principles that govern men are derived from three sources: revelation, natural law, and the artificial conventions of society. With regard to its main purpose, there is no comparison between the first and the others; but all three are alike in that they all lead towards happiness in this mortal life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020