- Chance
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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
- Fated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.
- Nov 07, 2020
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money, to me, is just a mode of transportation that I use to get around but not enough to get me where I really want to be: to a world of bliss and happiness.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Ourselves
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- Nov 07, 2020