Quotes about Happiness
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Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,' and she'd say: 'Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.'
Happiness is making your dreams come true.
I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
I think we pursue positive relationships whether or not they bring us engagement or happiness.
One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
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