Quotes with happiness

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  • Samuel Johnson We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Honoré de Balzac We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bernard Malamud We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
    The Natural p. 152.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • 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
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Maxwell Maltz We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Pierre Corneille We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Robert M. Lindner What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Ben Hecht What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Margaret Oliphant What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Bernard Cornwell What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Richard Owen Cambridge What is the worth of any thing,
    But for the happiness 'twill bring?
    Learning 23
    Richard Owen Cambridge
    British poet (1717 - 1802)
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  • Leo Buscaglia What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • André Gide What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • John Buchan What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
    John Buchan
    Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist (1875 - 1940)
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  • Samuel Johnson When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anna Pavlova When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Merton When ambition ends, happiness begins.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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