Life Happiness Quotes - Page 9

• There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

  Laurence Sterne

  Real, Acquiescence, Definitions

  Laurence Sterne (1814). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.330

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• Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Happiness, Beautiful, Dream

  "Dover Beach" l. 29 (1867)

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• The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Happiness, Creative, Life Is

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• If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

  David Hume

  Suicide, Example, Way

  David Hume (2006). “Essays: Moral, Political and Literary”, p.595, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Art, Flower

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• Happiness does not come from external things as we're really taught as children. It doesn't come from Santa Claus. Happiness is from within your mind. Just realizing that will change your whole life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Children, Buddhism

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• Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Things In Life, Important, Interest

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• The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

  Erich Fromm

  Happiness, Capacity To Love, Growth

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• In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Block, Home

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• Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

  Chandra Wilson

  Happiness, Tragedy, Silver

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

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• Happiness is reverence for all life.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Reverence

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• I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Desire, Life Is

  1895 March banks. Candida, act 3.

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• Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Happiness, Dark

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• You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Want, Said, Courses

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.122, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

  Kate Morton

  Life Is, Given

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours”, p.329, Pan Macmillan

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• You see my tears, in the rain underneath it all, we're just the same.

  Machine Gun Kelly

  Rain, Hip Hop, Tears

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• I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Husband, Joy

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Joy, Looks, Bliss

  Orhan Pamuk (2002). “My Name is Red”, Vintage

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• I love the broad margin to my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Broads, Margins

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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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• I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

  William John Locke

  Courage, Believe, Army

  William John Locke (1925). “Simon the Jester”, p.470, Library of Alexandria

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• Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

  Rajneesh

  Positivity, Night, Life And Death

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• Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

  Chris Prentiss

  Happiness, Response, Our Lives

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• Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

  Denis Diderot

  Race, Hands, Soul

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• The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.

  Laurence Sterne

  Kindness, Voice, Looks

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