“Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.”
— Eugenio Montale
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“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”
— Bertrand Russell
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“A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.”
— Josh Billings
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“Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.”
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.”
— Monica Edwards
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“For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.”
— James Payn
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“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”
— Ben Jonson
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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”
— William James
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