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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. -- Philip Sidney
To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. -- Matthew Arnold
People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time. -- Gunnar Myrdal
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? -- Leslie Caron
Freedom from suffering is a great happiness. -- Nhat Hanh
Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding. -- Yehuda Amichai
The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs. -- Joyce Carol Oates
A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. -- Francis Bacon
Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness. -- Deborah Norville
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love -- Hermann Hesse
Choosing love will bring you great joy and great happiness - that happiness is a choice you make. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. -- Friedrich Schiller
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. -- Walker Percy
In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy~? -- Leslie Caron
We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true. -- Joyce Grenfell
Art is, after all, only a trace "? like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness. -- Robert Henri
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain. -- Andre Maurois
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations. -- Samuel Richardson
Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him. -- Anthony Trollope
Dedication to goodness-dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint-was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness. -- Sylvia Boorstein
Above all, I will keep an open heart. As I move on the right path I will recieve great happiness as a reward without asking for anything in return. -- Sun Simiao
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered by affection. -- Robertson Davies
Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses- -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world. -- Sri Aurobindo
Households, cities, countries and nations have enjoyed great happiness, when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such men not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. -- Philo
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind. -- Philo
During the course of a day, some dark feeling comes, maybe some sadness comes, some thrill, some great happiness, some strange humor. Cinema can embrace all that in one story, just as the story of life. -- David Lynch
Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness -- Swami Vivekananda
The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to accept our limitations, to use what we have, and leave the rest to God. -- George Washington
It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great happiness--however temporary, however flimsy--of one person could come out of the great unhappiness of another. -- Alice Munro
The first few glasses of beer were a revelation; they flushed my veins with happiness; they washed away all cares and shyness and worries. I remember thinking to myself, If I could have two pints of beer every afternoon, life would be a great happiness. -- George Mackay Brown
m really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world. -- Jamie Cullum
In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream. -- Madhuri Dixit
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. -- Bryant McGill
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. -- Willa Cather
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. -- Scott Weiss
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. -- George Bernard Shaw
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. -- Muhammad Yunus
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. -- Sydney Smith
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. -- Thomas Huxley
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps. -- Ellen Pompeo
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great. -- Rick Derringer
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. -- Ernest Dimnet
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. -- Elie Wiesel
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. -- Bob Hope
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God. -- Frederick William Faber
I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup. -- Drew Barrymore
Happiness is a great contentment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Love and happiness is a great match. -- Jon Jones
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Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. -- Bryant McGill
happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement. -- Francoise Sagan
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance -- Honore de Balzac
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much. -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness. -- Jean Paul
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream -- Jack Kerouac
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness -- David Hume
Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness. -- Burt Reynolds
Through the ages all great men have taught truth and happiness can't be bought. -- Stevie Wonder
Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success. -- Debasish Mridha
The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind. -- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Happiness is attractive. Once you decide to be happy, you attract great things into your life. -- Robert Holden
The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for? -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her. -- H. L. Mencken
Have you ever thought about how great you would look standing in the land of success and happiness? -- Edmond Mbiaka
Great people attract great people. The quality of your team can play a big role in employee happiness. -- David Niu
Have you ever thought about how great you would look standing in the land of success and happiness~? -- Edmond Mbiaka
Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day. -- Jim Rohn
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. -- George Orwell
My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key. -- Keshia Chante
Happiness is a great big hug, hugging us from the inside. allow yourself to feel its warmth and grace -- Micheline Jean Louis
Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation. -- Debasish Mridha
The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it. -- L. Ron Hubbard
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends. -- James Monroe
The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress. -- Murray Rothbard
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve. -- Peter Deunov
When, from the depths of your heart, you spontaneously wish all beings to find true, lasting happiness, this is great love. -- Dalai Lama
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness. -- Gilbert Highet
Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe. -- Georg Ebers
Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human. -- Simon Sinek
Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room. -- Julien Green
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. -- Willa Cather
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
If you understand the great plan of happiness and follow it, what goes on in the world will not determine your happiness. -- Boyd K. Packer
My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice. -- Max Walker
For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. -- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen. -- June Millington
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had. -- David Lynch
The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there. -- Jude Morgan
I testify of the great blessing of children and of the happiness they will bring us in this life and in the eternities, -- Neil L. Andersen
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. -- Ernest Hemingway
... when personal happiness conflicts with any great human ideal, the right to claim such happiness is as nothing compared to the privilege of resigning it. -- Margaret Deland
There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception. -- Tarek Saab
When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness. -- Robin Sharma
I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve. -- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
The spectrum that most people exist in this world is very mundane and very unhappy. Certainly human beings are capable of experiencing great joy and happiness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness. -- Francis Atterbury
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another. -- Edmund Burke
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed. -- Graham Greene
I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better. -- Mark Hoppus
There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without stability and order. -- Clinton Rossiter
It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong. -- John Lubbock
A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness. -- Nathaniel Branden
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience. -- Russell Simmons
To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble. -- Lew Wallace
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful. -- Swami Vivekananda
We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating. -- Sharon Salzberg
I don't want to sound like I'm on dope, but that hour is a high; it's as good as you can feel. A wonderful, wonderful happiness, and great power. -- Phyllis Diller
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. -- Samuel Chase
Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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