Happiness Quotes

• "If you cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
  By: Nikita Khrushchev, in "Time" magazine
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• "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
  By: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his definition of happiness
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• "Your success and happiness lie in you. . . . Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
  By: Helen Adams Keller
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• "We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. [Lat., Ducimus autem Hos quoque felices, qui ferre incommoda vitae, Nec jactare jugum vita didicere magistra.]"
  By: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (XII, 20)
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• "In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared."
  By: Joseph Joubert
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• "Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson
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• "We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "None are happy but by anticipation of change."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."
  By: Sarah Orne Jewett
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• "Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of His creatures in this world; but that He has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I have steadfastly believed."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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