~ Happiness Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.

Blaise Pascal

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

Charles Caleb Colton

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[highlight-text]Fear less hope more; eat less chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less say more; love more and all good things will be yours.

Swedish Proverb

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Benjamin Franklin

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[highlight-text]My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet I kiss her feet.

Marguerite Wilkinson

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[highlight-text]I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Diane Ackerman

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money as long as we get our hands on it?

Ivy Baker Priest

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[highlight-text]If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.

Josh Billings

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.

Barbara Pletcher

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[highlight-text]If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.

William Lyon Phelps

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[highlight-text]Love I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zora Neale Hurston

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

Robert J. McCracken

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself; may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!

Horace

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee ... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Margaret Atwood

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[highlight-text]If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Bertrand Russell