“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.”
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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“Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.”
— Joyce Grenfell
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“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
— Clara Schumann
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“Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.”
— Benjamin Spock
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“Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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“This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.”
— Herman Hesse
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“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.”
— William Beveridge
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“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”
— James Madison
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“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”
— William Cowper
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“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”
— Alfred de Musset
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