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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
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.
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I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.
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Animals are everything to me. I always say, 'Who rescued who?' with my horse Belle. She is my greatest teacher. She teaches me to be grounded, present, and in the moment, which I feel is key to happiness. My panic attacks become nonexistent when spending time with my animals, especially out in nature.
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I should be writing songs about happiness all day long, but a lot of my songs get inspired from that place of unworthiness and shame, which really goes with mental illness.
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One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
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