“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.”
— Hermann Hesse
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What we call happiness in the strictest
“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”
— Sigmund Freud
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I learned from a very young age
“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.”
— Brandon Boyd
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The crown of life is neither happiness
“The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.”
— Winifred Holtby
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest
“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”
— Logan P. Smith
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True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification,
“True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
— Helen Keller
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
— Victor Hugo
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When the honour is given to that
“When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.”
— George Porter
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I love my family and I had
“I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.”
— Ezra Miller
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Only man clogs his happiness with care,
“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
— John Dryden
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If your happiness depends on what somebody
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
— Richard Bach
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