All Quotes By Tag: Happiness
“Don’t look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.”
“The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.”
“Each to their own reality”
“I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness.”
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“It’s always something here – if there isn’t a riot, then someone’s usually trying to escape. The wasted effort helps me see the positives of imprisonment. Unlike those pulling their hair out in good society, here we don’t have to feel ashamed of our day-to-day unhappiness. Here we have someone visible to blame – someone wearing shiny boots. That’s why, on consideration, freedom leaves me cold. Because out there in the real world, freedom means you have to admit authorship, even when your story turns out to be a real stinker.”
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“Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.”
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“Where else,” I will say, “does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world?”
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“Health, wealth, happiness,live long and always prosper,have families and also friends,let them be lasting in me forever.”
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“Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck”
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“Find happiness where you can,” she said softly. “It’s not just the great big whammo things. Look for the beauty of life in the small things, and you’ll be the happiest person alive.”
“Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.”
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“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality only been more conspicuous than others, not more frequent, or more severe.”
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“I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of this world’s goods. But blow for blow I shall strike against Communism, because it robs us of the next world’s happiness.”
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“A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep.”
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“Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.”
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