Great Happiness Quotes - Page 12

• It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

  Philip Sidney

  Happiness, Praiseworthy

  "Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks".

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• Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

  Deborah Norville

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

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• 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

  Men, Mind, Use

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• Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Happiness, Hiding, Behinds

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai”, p.95, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Beautiful, Country, Taken

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• 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

  Pain, Dedication, Moral

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Moving, Heart, Asking

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• 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

  Giving Up, Married, Matrimony

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• 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

  Women, Rain, Wife

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• 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

  Blessing, Would Be, Pity

  Anthony Trollope (185?). “Phineas Redux”, p.109

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• We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

  Joyce Grenfell

  Memories, Loses

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• Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Suffering

  "Old Path White Clouds". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1987.

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• It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Accord, Profession

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• The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Creativity, Life Happiness

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• My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Years, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

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• 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

  Beer, Thinking, Two

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• 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

  Action, Term, Wells

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• Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

  Georg Ebers

  Sorrow, Tactics, Enthusiasm

  Georg Ebers (2015). “Serapis”, p.397, BookRix

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• I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love

  Hermann Hesse

  Happiness, Hope Death, Fulfilled

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Narcissus and Goldmund: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

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• The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Happiness, Duty, Discharge

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• 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

  Sadness, Dark, Feelings

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Christopher Bollen and Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• 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

  Unique, Privilege, World

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• I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

  Adrienne Rich

  Creativity, Darkness, Use

  Source: criticalflame.org

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• I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.

  Tod Goldberg

  Teaching, Writing, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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