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Quotes about happiness
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The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. (Bates Alan)
Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. (Bates Alan)
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. (Bates Alan)
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! (Bates Alan)
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy. (Bates Alan)
What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation. (Bates Alan)
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life. (Bates Alan)
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. (Bates Alan)
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. (Bates Alan)
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. (Bates Alan)
The secret of happiness is something to do. (Bates Alan)
When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter. (Bates Alan)
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. (Bates Alan)
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead. (Bates Alan)
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. (Bates Alan)
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all. (Bates Alan)
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. (Bates Alan)
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. (Bates Alan)
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. (Bates Alan)
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. (Bates Alan)
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. (Bates Alan)
The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. (Bates Alan)
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