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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
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To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
André Gide
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In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.
G. K. Chesterton
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The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.
Albert Camus
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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Wise statesmen... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began....
Abraham Lincoln
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Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.
Rabindranath Tagore
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With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
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The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.
Rumi
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No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
Immanuel Kant
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Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Thomas Jefferson
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If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.
Dale Carnegie
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While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.
C. S. Lewis
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. Lewis
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A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Children are one's greatest happiness, but often and often a still greater misery. A man of science ought to have none — perhaps not a wife; for then there would be nothing in this wide world worth caring for, and a man might (whether he could is another question) work away like a Trojan.
Charles Darwin
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
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Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
Samuel Johnson
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It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.
Epictetus
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For some identify happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophic wisdom, others with these, or one of these, accompanied by pleasure or not without pleasure; while others include also external prosperity. Now … it is not probable that these should be entirely mistaken, but rather that they should be right in at least some one respect or even in most respects.
Aristotle
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