Quotes 461 till 480 of 596.
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The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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The most important thing is friends, family, and the people around you. That's what really makes you happy.
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
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The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.
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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
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The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
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