Great Happiness Quotes - Page 12

• It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Accord, Profession

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• The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Creativity, Life Happiness

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• Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

  Swami Vivekananda

  Action, Term, Wells

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• My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Years, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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• We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Memories, Loses

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• Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' — sorry about that — but there's a thing that could be the sun... hang on... that means 'great happiness'... so you're going to suffer but be very happy..." "You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me," said Ron, and they both had to stifle their laughs as Professor Trelawney gazed in their direction.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Mean, Eye

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• Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

  Walker Percy

  Loss, Risk, Gains

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Dedication, Moral

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

  Philo

  Beautiful, Country, Taken

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• Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Footprint, Shows

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.175, Basic Books

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• He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

  Dean Koontz

  Life Is Short, People, Unhappy

  Dean Koontz (1995). “The Key to Midnight”, p.216, Penguin

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• It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another.

  Alice Munro

  Emotional, World, Unhappiness

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Mar 10, 2013

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• Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Happiness, Hiding, Behinds

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai”, p.95, Univ of California Press

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• There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

  Samuel Richardson

  Giving Up, Married, Matrimony

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• It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

  Philip Sidney

  Happiness, Praiseworthy

  "Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".

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• He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

  Andre Maurois

  Women, Rain, Wife

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

  Anthony Trollope

  Blessing, Would Be, Pity

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.109

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• The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness.

  George Mackay Brown

  Beer, Thinking, Two

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• I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

  Hermann Hesse

  Happiness, Hope Death, Fulfilled

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

  Adrienne Rich

  Creativity, Darkness, Use

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Unique, Privilege, World

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• The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Happiness, Duty, Discharge

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• During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life.

  David Lynch

  Sadness, Dark, Feelings

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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