983 private quotes tagged happiness

“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.” — Samuel Johnson

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“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.” — James Madison

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“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.” — William Feather

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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Edmund Burke

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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.” — William Feather

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“The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” — Helen Keller

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“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.” — C. S. Lewis

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“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.” — William Shakespeare

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“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” — Aristotle

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“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” — Bertrand Russell

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“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.” — Bertrand Russell

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“To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.” — Victor Hugo

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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.” — William Blake

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“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley

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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

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“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.” — Tom Wilson

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