HAPPINESS QUOTES XII

quotations about Happiness

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There is even evidence happiness is contagious, so happier people help others around them to become happier, too.

JOSEPH FRENCH

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States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

STEFAN ZWEIG

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Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?

ALBERT CAMUS

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If I think that happiness is possible, I know all too well its hidden nature--and by what wretched paradox, instead of being an excess that would elevate us in dignity, it is a numbness we are only aware of afterward.

ALBERT CAMUS

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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

ANDRE GIDE

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Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have the time. But the present time has one advantage over every other--it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

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Happiness is a shy thing. Grief is blatant and advertising. If a boy cuts his finger he howls, proclaiming his woe. If he is eating pie he sits still and says nothing.

FRANK CRANE

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

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You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

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So long as men strive for their individual happiness only, so long they shall strive for it in vain, because they strive for something which does not exist. When one will strive for all and all for one, then, and then only, general happiness will be possible. Until then men will remain savages, in constant war with each other, like fools destroying the very house that shelters them.

NORBERT LAFAYETTE SAVAY

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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

ARISTOTLE

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My capacity for happiness ... you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

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Worldly happiness is like a golden palace, but with no entrance.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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The spider's most attenuated thread
Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie
On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

EDWARD YOUNG

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Maybe you have to wait for happiness. Maybe the rest is only words.

ELLEN GILCHRIST

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The happiest people are focused on living their own life (not someone else's) as well as possible.

HARRIET LERNER

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Happiness is a road-side flower, growing on the highways of Usefulness,
Plucked, it shall wither in thy hand; passed by, it is fragrance to thy spirit.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

THICH NHAT HANH

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Happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

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