- 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
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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- Nov 07, 2020
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
- Through
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- Nov 07, 2020
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
- Enlightenment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
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- Nov 07, 2020