“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.”
— Philip Sidney
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You can have a lot of unhappiness
“You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.”
— Philip Kaufman
Author: Philip Kaufman
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Happiness in this world, when it comes,
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness always looks small while you hold
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
— Maxim Gorky
Author: Maxim Gorky
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Five or six hundred heads cut off
“Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.”
— Jean-Paul Marat
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like
“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”
— Maria Mitchell
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Happiness is not a goal; it is
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here
“Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there – and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.”
— Zoe Saldana
Author: Zoe Saldana
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Happiness is nothing more than good health
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
— Albert Schweitzer
Author: Albert Schweitzer
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There once was a demographic survey done
“There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.”
— Fiona Shaw
Author: Fiona Shaw
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Some of us learned in a school
“Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.”
— John Grierson
Author: John Grierson
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