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Happiness Quotes by Confucius
- Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
- Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness
- He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
- He who is really kind, can never be unhappy
- He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
- Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have
- If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
- The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the…
- Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves
- Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are…
- Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
- Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
More Happiness Quotes
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- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
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- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach