Quotes about "happiness"

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Definitions and meanings of word "happiness"

• Noun: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy

• Noun: emotions experienced when in a state of well-being

Featured authors with quotes containing word "happiness"

Bertrand Russell
10 quotes about happiness
British Philosopher, Critic, Historian, Mathematician
Saturday 18 May 1872 - Monday 2 February 1970
Samuel Johnson
9 quotes about happiness
English Critic, Poet, Author, Editor
Wednesday 18 September 1709 - Monday 13 December 1784
George Santayana
4 quotes about happiness
Spanish Philosopher, Novelist, Poet
Wednesday 16 December 1863 - Friday 26 September 1952
Thomas Jefferson
6 quotes about happiness
American President, Author
Saturday 13 April 1743 - Tuesday 4 July 1826
Polly Toynbee
5 quotes about happiness
English Writer, Journalist
Born Friday 27 December 1946
Aldous Huxley
3 quotes about happiness
English Writer, Novelist
Thursday 26 July 1894 - Friday 22 November 1963
Victor Hugo
5 quotes about happiness
French Writer, Novelist, Poet, Author, Dramatist
Friday 26 February 1802 - Friday 22 May 1885
Arthur Schopenhauer
4 quotes about happiness
German Philosopher
Friday 22 February 1788 - Friday 21 September 1860
Helen Keller
5 quotes about happiness
American Author, Activist, Lecturer
Sunday 27 June 1880 - Saturday 1 June 1968
Maurice Maeterlinck
5 quotes about happiness
Belgian Dramatist
Friday 29 August 1862 - Monday 6 June 1949
Dale Carnegie
5 quotes about happiness
American Writer, Lecturer
Saturday 24 November 1888 - Tuesday 1 November 1955
John Stuart Mill
3 quotes about happiness
English Philosopher
Tuesday 20 May 1806 - Thursday 8 May 1873

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Charles de Montesquieu

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles de Montesquieu

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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: actions, right, proportion, tend, promote, happiness, wrong, produce, reverse, intended, pleasure, absence, pain
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: happiness, ones, own, heart, alone, satisfy, soul, one, must, try, include, necessary
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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

Charles de Montesquieu

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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

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God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Charles de Montesquieu

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Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Charles de Montesquieu

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: happiness, hard, master, particularly, other, peoples
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Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: happiness, byproduct, function, purpose, conflict, seek, victory, war
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: action, may, bring, happiness
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Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: destiny, happiness
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: money, human, happiness, abstract, longer, capable, enjoying, concrete, devotes, utterly
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: happiness, absence, striving
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Charles de Montesquieu

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: achievement, happiness, moral, purpose, life, pain, mindless, proof, integrity, result, loyalty, values
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Charles de Montesquieu

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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: success, key, happiness, love, doing, will, successful
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Charles de Montesquieu

Words: happiness, traveled, owned, earned, worn, consumed, spiritual, experience, living, every, minute, love, grace, gratitude
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