Quotes with happiness

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• God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

  Billy Graham
  American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

  W.S. Landor
   
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• Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

  Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

  Alphonse De Lamartine
  French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

  Pearl S. Buck
  American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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• Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

  Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) #102

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
  

  George Washington
  First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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• Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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• Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
  

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

  Sir Hugh Walpole
  British writer
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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

  Leo C. Rosten
   
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• Happiness consists in activity - it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

  John Mason
   
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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

  Benjamin Franklin
  American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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• Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

  August Strindberg
  Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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• Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

  Andy Rooney
  American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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• Happiness depends on what you can give. Not what you can get.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  Hindu spiritual leader (1916 - 1993)
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• Happiness depends upon ourselves.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

  Barry Sanders
  American football player (1968 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• satisfaction
• conveniences
• presentiment
• adjustment
• connected
• jefferson

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