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Quotations
About Happiness
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The
summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready
to be what he is.
-
Erasmus
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
to take things as they come with patience and equanimity.
- Carl Gustov Jung
We
are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves
to be.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Real
happiness is not dependent on external things.
- Willian Lyon Phelps
Happiness
consists not in having much, but in wanting no more
than you have.
- Lydia Maria Child
Contentment
is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at
the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and
a happy purchase.
- John Balguy
Great
efforts from great motives is the best definition of
a happy life.
- William Ellery Channing
Condition,
circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
- Alexander Pope
To
be secure, be humble. To be happy, be content.
- James Hurdis
It
is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness.
- J. Paul F. Richter
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Oh,
be he king or peasant, he is happiest
Who in his home finds peace.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |