- Family
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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
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every woman goes through a lot of agony before she decides in favour of her own happiness or that of her children.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness can't start with external stuff, whether that's money or success or your body.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don't think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable.
- Arising
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- Nov 07, 2020