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“We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
[Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Natura Deorum (I, 20)
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“Happiness seems made to be shared.
[Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes Source: Notes par Rochefoucauld
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“If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our bliss must flow,
And that dear hut,--our home.”
Nathaniel Cotton Quotes Source: The Fireside
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“Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 246)
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“Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 41)
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“He who finds thought that lets us penetrate even a little deeper
into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great grace.
He who, in addition, experiences the recognition, sympathy, and
help of the best minds of his times, had been given almost more
happiness than one man can bear.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 41)
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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. III, l. 41)
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“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Distichs
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“The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
[Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft
Ermattet endlich.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Iphigenia auf Tauris (IV, 5, 9)
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“Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.”
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“Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.”
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“Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”
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“Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are”
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“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”
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“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
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“Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security.”
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“Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.”
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“Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.”
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“Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple—yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.”
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“Happiness is not given but exchanged.”
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“Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass.”
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“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”
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“Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.”
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“Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.”
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“Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.”
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