Happiness Quotes

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happin

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Charles de Montesquieu

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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Gretta Brooker Palmer

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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the re

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

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A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in t

A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your ow

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chi

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

William Samuel Johnson

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To be

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully an

I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of medievalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal - to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals.

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

Happiness Perfection

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

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Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfyin

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the b

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presuppose

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man cons

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doub

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me fro

There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

Happiness Love

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, ou

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

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