“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happiness does not come from doing easy
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Happiness is no respecter of persons.
“Happiness is no respecter of persons.”
— Stephen Fry
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Money, if it does not bring you
“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”
— Helen Gurley Brown
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Romance and novel paint beauty in colors
“Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!”
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Mystery is gone to the certainty of
“Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.”
— Godfrey Reggio
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Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving
“Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.”
— Henry Drummond
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It is our happiness to live under
“It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will – We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.”
— Jonathan Mayhew
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.”
— William Lyon Phelps
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The arts are weapons of understanding and
“The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.”
— Richard Eyre
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The founders of a new colony, whatever
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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