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Quotes for:
happiness
Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo
happiness
to hide
I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire
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Letter to the Abbé Trublet
decision
happiness
health
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Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham
happiness
To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard
-
La Psychanalyse du feu
happiness
others
Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.”
Nicolas Chamfort
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Maximes et pensées
happiness
When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.”
Jules Renard
happiness
others
The effort we make to be happy is never lost.”
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain
-
Propos sur le bonheur
happiness
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Anne Frank
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The Diary of a Young Girl
happiness
others
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere
happiness
laughter
to die
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus
friendship
happiness
wisdom
Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”
Bertrand Russell
happiness
Human nature
My happiness should justify existence itself!”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
existence
happiness
When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”
Oscar Wilde
happiness
harmony
oneself
There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Emile, or On Education
courage
happiness
virtue
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.”
Aristotle
happiness
The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Tractatus Logico-philosophicus
happiness
world
A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.”
Albert Einstein
happiness
joy
life
success
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
happiness
We should try to be happy, just to set an example.”
Jacques Prévert
happiness
Happy is he who can forget what cannot be anymore changed.”
Johann Strauss II
happiness
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
happiness
Very little is needed to make a happy life.”
Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
happiness
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.”
Charles de Montesquieu
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Persian Letters
happiness
others
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
happiness
virtue
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
happiness
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
happiness
harmony
to think
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.”
Baruch Spinoza
happiness
virtue
My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.”
André Gide
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Fruits of the Earth
happiness
others
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.”
Denis Diderot
happiness
others
The kind of happiness I want consists, not so much in doing what I wish, as in not doing what I don't wish.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
happiness
to will
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