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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
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
- Labour
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- Nov 07, 2020
As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.
- Man
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020