“I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.”
— Hugh Laurie
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“It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.”
— Hugo Black
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“Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.”
— Johann Pestalozzi
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“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.”
— Franz Kafka
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“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”
— Karl Marx
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“I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.”
— Joseph Butler
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“I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.”
— Alanis Morissette
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“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
— Thomas Merton
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“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo
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“Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.”
— Samuel Johnson
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