Happiness Quotes

• "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self."
  By: Murdoch, Iris
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• "He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."
  By: Munro, Hector Hugh
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• "No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days."
  By: Muller, Max
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• "I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
  By: Muggeridge, Malcolm
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• "There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world."
  By: Muggeridge, Malcolm
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• "We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."
  By: Montesquieu, Charles De
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• "False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
  By: Montesquieu, Charles De
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• "If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."
  By: Montesquieu, Charles De
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• "The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most."
  By: Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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• "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so."
  By: Mill, John Stuart
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• "Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money."
  By: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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• "Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind."
  By: Meynell, Alice
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• "Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize."
  By: Meredith, Owen
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• "Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep."
  By: Maxwell, William
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• "Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
  By: Maurier, Daphne Du
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• "Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."
  By: Mason, John
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