All Quotes By Tag: Happiness
“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”
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“The key to happiness – or that even more desired thing, calmness – lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don’t become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.”
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“Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.”
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“How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
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“that’s exactly the good thing about the Injun life–you don’t have to stop and think about whether or not you’re ‘happy’–which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks”
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“I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room”
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“Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.”
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“Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness”
“The good news is that I believe every woman who wants to can find a great partner. You’re just going to need to get rid of the idea that marriage will make you happy. It won’t. Once the initial high wears off, you’ll just be you, except with twice as much laundry. Because ultimately, marriage is not about getting something — it’s about giving it. Strangely, men understand this more than we do. Probably because for them marriage involves sacrificing their most treasured possession — a free-agent penis — and for us, it’s the culmination of a princess fantasy so universal, it built Disneyland.”
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“Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.”
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“If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don’t let them interrupt or alter your song.”
“How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don’t let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses”
“Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness.”
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“In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and that is the right to be protected. That is my doctrine. You are married; try and make the woman you love happy. Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says ‘I will make her happy,’ makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, ‘I will make him happy.’ There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.”
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