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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

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You are lucky, Renisenb. You have found the happiness that is inside everybody's own heart. To most ...

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I think Mrs. Leidner seems happier already from just talking about it. That's always a help, you kno...

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What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

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Agatha ChristieThe Man in the Brown Suit

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "lu...

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We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfacti...

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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the per...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

However powerful our technology and complex our corporations, the most remarkable feature of the mod...

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Alain de BottonThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

1 am happy and content because I think I am.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at ...

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There are few nicer things than sitting up in bed, drinking strong tea, and reading.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over ...

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You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Ha...

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Alan MooreV for Vendetta

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he...

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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust,...

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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditio...

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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. ButSisyphus teach...

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never liv...

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Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the p...

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Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be ...

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What I'm sure of," he began, "is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like sup...

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For him, too, starting over, departures, a new life had a certain luster, but he knew that only the ...

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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid...

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Living above the world, each discovering his own weight, seeing his face brighten and darken with th...

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Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was hu...

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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had exi...

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It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering ...

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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devo...

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffe...

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Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own...

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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be re...

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One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought an...

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Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery.

A felicidade nunca é graciosa.Happiness is never gracious.

What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. An...

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Aldous HuxleyBrave New World

Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

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Aldous HuxleyBrave New World

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol....

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But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good...

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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the...

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One should never direct people towards happiness, becausehappiness too is an idol of the market-plac...

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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the ...

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A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness ...

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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

False happiness is like false money it passes for a long time as well as the true and serves some ...

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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces...

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in o...

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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with a...

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The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect a...

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Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt wh...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy ...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real hap...

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You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to ...

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If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.

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Alfred BesterThe Stars My Destination

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housek...

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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which incl...

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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronge...

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In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all...

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God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.

No one is to blame because there is no one other than you. Nothing is to disrespect because there is...

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Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

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In reality, we live in every one. Deep down there is a rose in every heart.

Every challenge provides light. The light of understanding about life and truth.

Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care e...

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Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.

There is a music of the universes in every heart.

Believe in yourself and be the source of joy in someone else's life.

Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process t...

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It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connectio...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recogni...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expa...

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Amit RayYoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.

Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.