- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always find a reason to be happy before I sleep. For me, happiness is a choice that is in your hands.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
- Family And Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.
- Driving Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
- Nov 07, 2020
Independence is happiness.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love what I do, and I love doing it, and I love getting better at it. I just am not willing to risk... Much... to go on to the next level. I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness or my family or the love of my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to risk my personal sanity or happiness, or my family, or the love of my life. That's a mistake. And I think a lot of people make that mistake, they're always kind of, like, seeking out the next thing that's gonna happen.
- Bona Fide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020