“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
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“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.”
— F. H. Bradley
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“We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.”
— Ethel Percy Andrus
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“Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.”
— Richard Ford
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“The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.”
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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“Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.”
— Dennis Prager
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“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
— Immanuel Kant
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“It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.”
— Herman Hesse
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“If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.”
— Evita Peron
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“Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.”
— William E. Gladstone
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“Happiness is no laughing matter.”
— Richard Whately
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