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Quotations by Subject: Happiness
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
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Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
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Immanuel Hermann Fichte
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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James Oppenheim
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Jean Houston
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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John Berry, Flight of White Crows
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it 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 companions.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
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Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
I’ve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.
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Laura Moncur, Merriton, 06-04-08
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
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Louise Bogan
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
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Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
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Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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Rita Mae Brown
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
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Robertson Davies
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
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Roy M. Goodman
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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Storm Jameson
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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