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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."

Iris Murdoch on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

  • "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

    John Barrymore on Happiness

  • "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

    Dalai Lama on Happiness

  • "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

    Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

  • "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

    Martha Washington on Happiness

  • "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Iris Murdoch

  • "The cry of equality pulls everyone down."

  • "We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is."

  • "We can only learn to love by loving."

  • "Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is."

  • "In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way."

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