HAPPINESS QUOTES XI

quotations about Happiness

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

JANE AUSTEN

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Happiness is a Moving Target.

DON WICKER

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The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not have changed, but our capacity for dealing with it has. Happiness, or unhappiness, depends to some extent on external conditions, but also, and in most cases chiefly, on our own physical and mental powers. Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

ARTHUR LYNCH

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If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

ALAIN DE BOTTON

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

WILL FERGUSON

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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

ARISTOTLE

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Perhaps happiness is, was, and ever shall be the ultimate human end in every time and place.

DARRIN M. MCMAHON

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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

AYN RAND

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What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring?

RICHARD OWEN CAMBRIDGE

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There is even evidence happiness is contagious, so happier people help others around them to become happier, too.

JOSEPH FRENCH

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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

WASHINGTON IRVING

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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

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Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but with no entrance.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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The spider's most attenuated thread
Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie
On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

EDWARD YOUNG

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No man is happy who does not think himself so.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

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If I think that happiness is possible, I know all too well its hidden nature--and by what wretched paradox, instead of being an excess that would elevate us in dignity, it is a numbness we are only aware of afterward.

ALBERT CAMUS

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As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

IVAN PANIN

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Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have the time. But the present time has one advantage over every other--it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

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