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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
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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
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Quote 3110
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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Quote 3090
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successfulShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3083
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be lovedby: George SandShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3081
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my familyby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 3075
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcomeby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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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
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Quote 2995
The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purposeby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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Quote 2685
Wisdom is the supreme part of happinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2557
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonderShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2556
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2553
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with GodShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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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
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Quote 2500
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurableby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2488
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2450
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselvesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2442
Happily in this community we all are bred and born to work; and this honorable mark, set on us all, should bind together the various portions of the communityShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2425
There is little success where there is little laughterby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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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
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Quote 2337
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2241
Growth itself contains the germ of happinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2143
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of libertyShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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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
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Quote 2057
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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Quote 2022
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy taleShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2020
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incidentShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 2001
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of miseryby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1961
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chanceby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1916
From happiness to suffering is a step; from suffering to happiness is an eternity.Jewish proverbShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1880
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happyEskimo proverbShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1878
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joysShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1857
Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happyJapanese proverbShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1837
The highest happiness on earth is marriageShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1823
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1770
The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amountby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1765
A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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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
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Quote 1735
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corruptby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1730
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our griefby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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Quote 1651
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laughShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1650
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1632
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.by: William MorrisShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1624
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.by: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1602
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happinessby: AristotleShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1561
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserableby: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1503
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imaginesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1497
Wisdom is the supreme part of happinessby: SophoclesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1489
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.by: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1433
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1357
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselvesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1285
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.by: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1239
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdomby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1170
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without moneyby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1103
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have beenby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1097
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old ageShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1096
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old ageShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1059
Power, after love, is the first source of happinessby: StendhalShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 1047
Diligence is the mother of good fortuneShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 948
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they goShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 947
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happinessby: Anatole FranceShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 946
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all menShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 944
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.by: EpiktetShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 943
To describe happiness is to diminish itby: StendhalShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 942
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 941
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredomShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 940
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passionsby: Alfred TennysonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 939
Happiness seems made to be sharedby: Pierre CorneilleShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 938
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left openby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 937
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do somethingShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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Quote 935
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 934
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using itShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 933
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 931
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardensShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 930
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sailsby: EuripidesShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 929
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.Showing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 927
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.by: Ben JonsonShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 926
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a twinShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 925
Happiness does not consist in self-love.by: Joseph ButlerShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 924
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?by: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 923
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 922
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by loveShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 921
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others soShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 920
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulseby: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 919
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappinessShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 918
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memoryShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 917
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within usby: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 916
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the futureShowing Quotes on happiness
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Quote 915
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share themby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on happiness
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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
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