Quotes with happiness

Quotes 281 till 300 of 596.

  • Anne Brontë Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XLV
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Susan B. Anthony Independence is happiness.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Thomas Paine It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Denis Waitley It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Kin Hubbard It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • George S. Clason It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
    George S. Clason
    American author (1874 - 1957)
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  • Ashley Montagu It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Aldous Huxley It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barry Took It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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  • Samuel Johnson It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Carlyle It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Marguerite Duras It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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