Quotes on Happiness: Find Joy in Every Day - Page 2

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Image of William Clay Ford, Jr.
I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
- William Clay Ford, Jr.
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Bertrand Russell
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Esther Duflo
The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.
- Esther Duflo
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Image of George Orwell
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- George Orwell
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Image of Alain Delon
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
- Alain Delon
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Image of Alastair Campbell
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
- Alastair Campbell
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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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Image of Julie Christie
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
- Julie Christie
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Image of Josephine Baker
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
- Josephine Baker
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Frederic Chopin
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
- Frederic Chopin
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Image of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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Image of Stefan Sagmeister
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
- Stefan Sagmeister
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Image of Henry Van Dyke
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
- Henry Van Dyke
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Image of Jeremy Bentham
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
- Jeremy Bentham
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Image of Martha Washington
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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Image of Ursula K. Le Guin
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
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Image of Henry B. Eyring
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
- Henry B. Eyring
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Image of J. Donald Walters
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
- J. Donald Walters
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Image of Mortimer Adler
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
- Mortimer Adler
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Image of Maria Montessori
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
- Maria Montessori
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Image of Oliver Goldsmith
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
- Oliver Goldsmith
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Image of Peter Marshall
I know that no business contract, no order or commercial consideration can ever be worth the happiness of one's home or the peace of one's mind.
- Peter Marshall
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Image of Marcel Proust
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
- Marcel Proust
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Image of Plato
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
- Plato
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Image of Suze Orman
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
- Suze Orman
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Image of Honore de Balzac
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
- Honore de Balzac
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Image of Ric Ocasek
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
- Ric Ocasek
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Image of Adam Neumann
Happiness comes from within.
- Adam Neumann
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Image of Daniel Kahneman
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
- Daniel Kahneman
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Image of Victor Hugo
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
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Image of Bertrand Russell
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Image of Sophocles
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
- Sophocles
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Image of Tom Wilson
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
- Tom Wilson
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Image of Malcolm Muggeridge
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Indira Gandhi
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
- Indira Gandhi
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Image of Alice Walker
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.
- Alice Walker
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Image of Simon Cowell
I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.
- Simon Cowell
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Image of Steve Kerr
I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.
- Steve Kerr
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Image of Mahatma Gandhi
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Image of Sabrina Carpenter
Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
- Sabrina Carpenter
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Image of John Dewey
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
- John Dewey
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Image of Charles Spurgeon
A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Image of Carrie Underwood
I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
- Carrie Underwood
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Image of Milan Kundera
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Milan Kundera
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Image of Richard Rohr
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
- Richard Rohr
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