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Quotes about happiness
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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being. (Bates Alan)
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result. (Bates Alan)
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Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. (Bates Alan)
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction. (Bates Alan)
The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. (Bates Alan)
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. (Bates Alan)
A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. (Bates Alan)
Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. (Bates Alan)
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. (Bates Alan)
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling. (Bates Alan)
For who is pleased with himself. (Bates Alan)
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. (Bates Alan)
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. (Bates Alan)
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. (Bates Alan)
Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Bates Alan)
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope. (Bates Alan)
My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. (Bates Alan)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Bates Alan)
Happiness is the longing for repetition. (Bates Alan)
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. (Bates Alan)
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