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Desiderius Erasmus

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

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Agnes Repplier

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

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Ashley Montagu

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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Stendhal

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

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Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

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Arnold Bennett

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

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David Brainerd

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

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Julian Casablancas

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

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Rita Mae Brown

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

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Adam Smith

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

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Don Marquis

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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Sarah McLachlan

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

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Lucinda Williams

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

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John Stuart Mill

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

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Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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Benjamin Spock

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

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Pierre Corneille

Happiness seems made to be shared.

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Denis Diderot

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

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Ernest Dimnet

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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Sam Levenson

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

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Austin O'Malley

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

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Joseph Butler

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

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Pearl S. Buck

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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Douglas Horton

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

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John Dryden

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

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Alphonse Karr

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

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Alphonse Karr

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

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Linus Pauling

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

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George Sand

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

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Maurice Maeterlinck

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

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William Ellery Channing

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

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Leon Kass

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

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Walter Savage Landor

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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Anna Pavlova

The right to happiness is fundamental.

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Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

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Joseph Roux

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

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Jose Marti

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

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F. H. Bradley

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

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Andrei Platonov

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

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Booth Tarkington

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

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Frank McCourt

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

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William Dean Howells

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

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Alfred de Musset

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

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C. S. Lewis

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

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Thomas Jefferson

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

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Jim Rohn

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

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Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

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Albert Camus

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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Buddha

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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