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Happiness Quotes by Jane Austen
- There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I…
- You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little…
- I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any…
- [I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.
- I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
- There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails,…
- If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I…
- What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for…
- She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely,…
- I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even…
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever…
- How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.
- To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well
- Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.
- Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.
- Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.
- Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
- I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.
- It's such a happiness when good people get together.
- As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it…
- You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- 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
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach