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Quotes about happiness
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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner. (Bates Alan)
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. (Bates Alan)
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. (Bates Alan)
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness. (Bates Alan)
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. (Bates Alan)
Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child. (Bates Alan)
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance. (Bates Alan)
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least. (Bates Alan)
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Bates Alan)
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. (Bates Alan)
Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object (Bates Alan)
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. (Bates Alan)
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. (Bates Alan)
Happiness requires problems (Bates Alan)
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. (Bates Alan)
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. (Bates Alan)
To buy happiness is to sell soul. (Bates Alan)
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. (Bates Alan)
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. (Bates Alan)
The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work. (Bates Alan)
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. (Bates Alan)
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. (Bates Alan)
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