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Quotations by Subject: Happiness
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Very little is needed to make a happy life.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.: Margaret Lee Runbeck
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.: Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.: Montesquieq
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.: Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, 2011
No man is happy who does not think himself so.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.: Rita Mae Brown
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.: Robert S. Lynd
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.: Robertson Davies
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.: Roy M. Goodman
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.: Storm Jameson
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.: The laws of Manu
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.: William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.: William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)

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