Happiness Quotes - Page 38

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  Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Life, Change, Death

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• Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour

  Robert Owen

  Country, Children, Women

  Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7

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• If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.

  Noah Webster

  Failure, Men, Law

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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• When I’m creating at the piano, I tend to feel happy; but - the eternal dilemma - how can we be happy amid the unhappiness of others? I'd do everything I could to give everyone a moment of happiness. That's what's at the heart of my music.

  Nino Rota

  Music, Being Happy, Heart

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• One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

  Patrice Motsepe

  Perfection, High Standards, Mediocre

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Death, Christian, Jesus

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Wine, Simple

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• The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

  Graham Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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• Life has a much bigger plan for you. Happiness is part of that plan. Health is part of that plan. Stability is part of that plan. Constant struggle is not.

  Kris Carr

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Jul 16, 2013

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• Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind

  Garchen Rinpoche

  Love, Nature, Buddhist

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• The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• No medicine is more valuable , none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share happiness in time of joy.

  Aelred of Rievaulx

  Friendship, Happy, Sympathy

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• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Sadness, Simplicity

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• Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

  Lily Collins

  Love, Romantic, Eye

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Happy, Morning, Attitude

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• The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.

  Toshitsugu Takamatsu

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Being Happy, Morning, Helping Others

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• I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

  Gen Urobuchi

  Writing, Heart, Character

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• I get way too much happiness from good food.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Being Happy, Food, Joy

  "Actress Elizabeth Olsen Travels with Sea Salt". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.bonappetit.com. October 04, 2013.

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• Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

  Oscar Wilde

  Marriage, Men, Taxation

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Clever, Memories

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

  Joanne Harris

  Sweet, Heart, Simple

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.146, Penguin

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• A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Smile, Mom, Mother

  "Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented". Volume II,

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