Happiness Quotes

• "Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery."
  By: Thomas Traherne
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• "Happiness is a journey… not a destination."
  By: Ben Sweetland
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• "Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness."
  By: C. Neil Strait
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• "Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles."
  By: Red Skelton
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• "I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery."
  By: Seneca Roman writer (55 BC - 39 AD)
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• "The will of man is his happiness."
  By: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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• "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
  By: Bertrand Russell
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• "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."
  By: Bertrand Russell
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• "Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."
  By: Leo C. Rosten
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• "You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness."
  By: Percy Ross
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• "To find recreation in amusement is not happiness."
  By: Blaise Pascal
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• "Happiness consists in activity - it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."
  By: John Mason
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• "What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness."
  By: Robert Lindner
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• "My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect."
  By: David Herbert Lawrence
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