“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
— Marcel Proust
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My idea of perfect happiness is a
“My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.”
— David Mamet
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There is no excellence without labor. One
“There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.”
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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The happiness of your life depends upon
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is even a happiness – that
“There is even a happiness – that makes the heart afraid.”
— Thomas Hood
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The smallest seed of faith is better
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Happiness is only real when shared.
“Happiness is only real when shared.”
— Christopher McCandless
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Happiness is being on the beam with
“Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life.”
— Agnes Martin
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Hope is itself a species of happiness,
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.”
— William Samuel Johnson
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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours
“Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.”
— Herman Hesse
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Happiness is not being pained in body
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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