- Body
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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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
- Pencil
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who fly to the height of stardom in a single day, and then there are people like me. I used to have this ridiculous idea that I absolutely had to be a big, big movie star. Now all I'm after is happiness.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
- Oppression
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- Nov 07, 2020