“Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.”
— Pablo Picasso
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“Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.”
— Glen Hansard
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“I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.”
— William Weld
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“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
— J. D. Salinger
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“For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.”
— Thomas Bulfinch
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“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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“Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.”
— Joseph Butler
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“The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.”
— Jonathan Edwards
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“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.”
— Bette Davis
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“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
— George Santayana
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