Quotes with happiness

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  • Bette Davis A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Stendhal A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • George Eliot A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ayn Rand Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • William James Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • C. S. Lewis Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Lord George Byron All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Daniel Boone All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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  • Anna Pavlova Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Adam Weishaupt And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Aeschylus And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bai Juyi And, because she so illumined and glorified her clan,
    She brought to every father, every mother through the empire,
    Happiness when a girl was born rather than a boy.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Bertrand Russell Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Dale Carnegie Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Sir Terence Conran Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.
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  • John F. Kennedy As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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