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Quote 3170
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 3132
I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 3098
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.Showing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 3095
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.Showing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 3049
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.Showing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 3019
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happyby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2995
The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purposeby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2688
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within himShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2635
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2547
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his lifeShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2512
The more refined one is, the more unhappyby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2502
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate peopleby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2391
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoiceby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2366
The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.Showing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2340
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at allShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2320
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretchedShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2241
Growth itself contains the germ of happinessShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2129
The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2073
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to doShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2023
You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happyShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 2001
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of miseryby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 1946
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!by: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 1762
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noiseby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 1737
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 1729
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companionsby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 1503
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imaginesShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 1497
Wisdom is the supreme part of happinessby: SophoclesShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 1489
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.by: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 1308
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himselfby: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Power, after love, is the first source of happinessby: StendhalShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 1047
Diligence is the mother of good fortuneShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 943
To describe happiness is to diminish itby: StendhalShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 941
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredomShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 936
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrowby: Alfred de MussetShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 935
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happinessShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 930
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sailsby: EuripidesShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 929
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.Showing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 926
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a twinShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 925
Happiness does not consist in self-love.by: Joseph ButlerShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 923
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happinessShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 920
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulseby: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 919
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappinessShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 918
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memoryShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 916
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the futureShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 914
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things newShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 909
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer itby: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 908
Happiness is a virtue, not its rewardShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 907
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I knowShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 906
Happiness depends upon ourselves.by: AristotleShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 905
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.Showing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 904
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourselfby: PlutarchShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 903
Anything you're good at contributes to happinessShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 902
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without actionShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 875
Beauty is the promise of happinessby: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 613
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteenby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 498
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at mathShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 431
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connectedShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 166
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.Showing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 119
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than othersShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 106
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappinessShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 99
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earthShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 95
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestionShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 91
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard ofby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 88
Happy is the one who knows the causes of thingsby: VergilShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Quote 87
Fortune sides with him who daresby: VergilShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
Quote 86
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.by: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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Happiness depends upon ourselvesby: AristotleShowing Quotes on Happiness and unhappiness
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