Marcel Proust: Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it...

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Quote: Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
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Author:
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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Happiness Happy

Happiness must be cultivated....

Quote: Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness Happy

Our greatest happiness does...

Quote: It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Author:
Thomas Moore
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Happiness Happy

It is only to...

Quote: People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.
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Author:
Dany Laferrière
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People are unhappy when...

Quote: Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
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Author:
Brad Pitt
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Happiness Happy

Happiness is overrated. There...

Quote: At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.
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Author:
Holly Holm
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Happiness Happy

At the end of...

Quote: What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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Author:
Adam Smith
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Happiness Happy

What can be added...

Quote: On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!
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Author:
Chandler Massey
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Happiness Happy

On a soap, happiness...

Quote: Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
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Author:
James Stephens
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Happiness Happy

Chaos is the first...

Quote: I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness.
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Author:
Princess Margaret
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Happiness Happy

I am deeply grateful...

Quote: The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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Author:
Ursula K. LeGuin
Category:
Happiness Happy

The trouble is that...

Quote: To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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Author:
James Madison
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Happiness Happy

To suppose that any...

Quote: A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Author:
Stendhal
Category:
Happiness Happy

A wise woman never...

Quote: Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.
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Author:
Simone Elkeles
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Happiness Happy

Expectations make people miserable,...

Quote: When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.
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Author:
Joyce Carol Oates
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Happiness Happy

When I wrote 'We...

Quote: Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
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Author:
Plato
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Happiness Happy

Our object in the...

Quote: There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
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Author:
Henry Drummond
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Happiness Happy

There is no happiness...

Quote: Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
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Author:
Gretchen Rubin
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Happiness Happy

Happiness is a critical...

Quote: You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
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Author:
Melissa de la Cruz
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Happiness Happy

You cannot be with...

Quote: Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections
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Author:
Bob Marley
Category:
Happiness Happy

Just because you are...

Quote: I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
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Author:
Drew Barrymore
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Happiness Happy

I think happiness is...

Quote: During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'
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Marquis de Lafayette
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Happiness Happy

During my last voyage...

Quote: I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself.
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Author:
Jazz Jennings
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Happiness Happy

I think I've been...

Quote: America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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Author:
Louis D. Brandeis
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America has believed that...

Quote: Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
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Author:
Bernard Meltzer
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Happiness Happy

Success is getting and...

Quote: It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
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Author:
Pharrell Williams
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Happiness Happy

It's not possible to...

Quote: It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
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Author:
Robert Herrick
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Happiness Happy

It takes great wit...

Quote: You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".
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Author:
Lauren Oliver
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Happiness Happy

You can't be happy...

Quote: Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
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Author:
Conor Oberst
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Happiness Happy

Now I believe that...

Quote: For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
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Author:
Marianne Williamson
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For many, many people,...

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