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I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You...

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The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ab...

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The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our li...

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Jean VanierFinding Peace

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth...

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Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

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Jean-Jacques RousseauThe Social Contract and Discourses

I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They...

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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the ...

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Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest t...

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When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake...

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Jeffrey BernardReach for the Ground: The Downhill Struggle of Jeffrey Bernard

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every...

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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is fo...

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Jeremy BenthamThe Principles of Morals and Legislation

Let your boat of life be light packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures o...

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He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'I looked down past my chin. 'In...

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I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessing...

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This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pur...

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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

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Jodi PicoultNineteen Minutes

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you...

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A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy...

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There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

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Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

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A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “...

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Johann Gottfried HerderAnother Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings

Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect...

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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked...

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earn...

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...nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a...

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A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of ou...

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There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the...

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I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song ...

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I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to li...

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

Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, howeve...

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Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.

The secret of happiness is something to do

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to ...

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There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to l...

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To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness...

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness...

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We say that the world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is ...

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John DonneDevotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and...

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

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, ha...

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Come on! Who wants to fight me?

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John FanteThe Road to Los Angeles

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobweb...

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People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...

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He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said abo...

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But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the...

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he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with. i have to believe that’s ...

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God knows what is my greatest happiness, but I do not. There is no rule about what is happy and good...

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God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good...

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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

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John IrvingLast Night in Twisted River

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becksOur ready minds to fellowship divine,A fellowship with es...

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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

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John KeatsEndymion: A Poetic Romance

If I am destined to be happy with you here—how short is the longest Life—I wish to believe in immort...

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John KeatsLetters of John Keats

If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to a...

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The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him ...

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If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery .....

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The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

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John Piper (artist)Don't Waste Your Life

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

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John Piper (artist)Don't Waste Your Life

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

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John Piper (theologian)Don't Waste Your Life

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

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John Piper (theologian)Don't Waste Your Life

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to ...

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John PowellWill the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to ...

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John PowellWill the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication

When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a...

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When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am ...

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I know well that happiness is in little things.

Happiness, honor, and great estate,For those who patiently work and wait.

And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happi...

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Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentie...

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.

The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely th...

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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of ...

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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrif...

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A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, “Stop trying to make me like you,” and what a soberi...

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she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the o...

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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal a...

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In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of closenes...

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It is not clear that married people are, on average, happier than those who never married, because u...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant.

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom