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"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts." Hannah Arendt 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." Aristotle 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government." Aristotle 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle 4.8387 average rating Rate this Quote
"A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view." Wilma Askinas 4.7037 average rating Rate this Quote
"For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own." Athenæus 4.1667 average rating Rate this Quote
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!" Paul Aubuchon 4.7273 average rating Rate this Quote
"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." Saint Augustine 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness." Saint Augustine 4.3750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Remember this[,] very little is needed to make a happy life." Marcus Aelius Aurelius 4.6250 average rating Rate this Quote
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." Marcus Aelius Aurelius 4.9697 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life Is A Challenge - Meet It! Life Is A Song - Sing It! Life Is A Dream - Realize It! Life Is A Game - Play It! Life Is Love - Enjoy It!" Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present." Roger Ward Babson 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." Richard David Bach 4.7931 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life is too long not to be happy." Thom Barber 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow." Sir James Matthew Barrie 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens." Ethel Barrymore 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open." John Barrymore 4.9333 average rating Rate this Quote
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not." Mary Catherine Bateson 4.7222 average rating Rate this Quote
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Dean Koontz Deciderius Erasmus Diane Elizabeth Duane
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Euripides Eustace Budgell Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Fran Lebowitz Franz Kafka Fran Leibowitz
Frederick William Faber Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche F(rancis) Scott
F. H. Bradley Gabrid Garcia Marquez George Burns
George Barrell Cheever George Levinger George Mathew Allen
George Seaton Bowes George W. Douglas Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Glenn Holm Goldie Hawn Hannah Arendt
Harold S. Geneen Hebrews 12:2 Bible Hector Hugh Munro
Heinrich Heine Helen Adams Keller Henri Matisse
Henry Ford Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Graham Greene Henry James Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Miller Herbert "Marshall" McLuhan Horace
Horace Mann Howard Abrahamson Hugh Downs
H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky H. Jackson Browne Ingrid Bergman
I Ching Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] Jacques Maritain
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. James Gould Cozzens James Lane Allen
Janet Louise Holman Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière Jean Caldwell
Jean de LaBruyere Jean de La Bruyère Jean Kerr
Jenna Elfman Jesse Louis Jackson Jim
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John Burroughs John B. Gough John Cheever
John Christian Bovee John Dryden John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John K. Hutchens John Mason Brown John Mason Good
John Stuart Mill John W(illiam) Gardner Joseph Addison
Joseph Conrad Julia A. Fletcher Carney Julie Arabi
Kahlil Gibran Kalidasa Kitaro Nishida
Lao-Tzu Lawrence Peter Berra Lewis Mumford
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Lord Mancroft Lucretius
Ludwig van Beethoven Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Marabeth Madsen
Marcus Aelius Aurelius Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mark Twain Marlene Dietrich Marquis de Sade
Martina Horner Martin Luther Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Cholmondeley Maurice Chevalier Maxim Gorky
Maxwell Maltz Mel Colgrove Michael Leuning
Mignon McLaughlin Miguel de Cervantes Mme. de Sartory
Mohammed Daud Khan Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Naguib Mahfouz
Napolean Hill Nathaniel Hawthorne Newell Dwight Hillis
Norman Lear Norman MacEwan Ogden Nash
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