Happiness Quotes
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
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He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
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He only is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor command in order to be something.
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He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
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He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
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He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure, and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
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I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.
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I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
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I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
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