Famous Quotes: Happiness

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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Happiness? No, it's not there for me.
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Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.
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Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
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Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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