happiness Quotes

“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realisation of the world in which we live.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end.”

― Ayn Rand, Anthem

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“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

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“But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire.”

― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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“The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

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“Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

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“You have gained a new source of enjoyment, and it is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“HAPPINESS, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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