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Quotes About Happiness

It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.
~ John Cowper Powys
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.
~ John Cowper Powys
There are only two mortal sins in the world; one of these is to be cruel and the other is to possess , and they are both destructive of happiness.
~ John Cowper Powys
Instead of pausing in our multifarious activities, instead of putting aside our laborious quests, we are being perpetually fooled into thinking that happiness is to be reached in the same way as pleasure is, by the possession of something.
~ John Cowper Powys
Nothing is against nature!" he retorted. "That's the mistake people make; and it causes endless unhappiness.
~ John Cowper Powys
This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.
~ John Cowper Powys
Happiness is a habit, it isn't something that comes with new clothes. It's something you have to work at. So, start smiling and get out and take some exercise
~ John Crace
Joy is not just a substance or an emotion – it is a person. Christ has become our inexhaustible joy.
~ John Crowder
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.
~ John Crowder
After many trials the God and his love end happily—tho' not all remember this conclusion—which is less memorable than the moment when everything was lost. Happy endings are all alike; disasters may be unique.
~ John Crowley
He looked up into Daily Alice's placid and certain face, wondering why every deepening of these daily mysteries left him less inclined to probe them. "The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.
~ John Crowley
What makes us happy makes us wise
~ John Crowley
The things that make us happy," he said, "make us wise.
~ John Crowley
By the twentieth century, when the individual had replaced the family as the primary economic unit, the tie between sexuality and reproduction weakened further. Influenced by psychology as well as by the growing power of the media, both men and women began to adopt personal happiness as a primary goal of sexual relations. Various
~ John D'Emilio
Celebrations are the juice of life.
~ John D. Hofbrauer, Jr.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
~ John D. Rockefeller
I was early taught to work as well as play, My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play- I dropped the worry on the way- And God was good to me every day.
~ John D. Rockefeller
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Don't waste effort on a thing that ends in a petty triumph unless you are happy with a life of petty success
~ John D. Rockefeller
Awakening is remembering to enjoy. The more delicate the enjoyment, the greater the awakening.
~ John de Ruiter
Love has neither aversion to pain nor attraction to bliss. Love is just fully itself in both.
~ John de Ruiter
Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.
~ John Denver
You Fill Up My Senses
~ John Denver
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
~ John Dewey