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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
Victor Hugo
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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With the present system of education for girls any genius who happens to be born a woman can make no contribution to public happiness.
Stendhal
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If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.
Jane Austen
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It is regrettable that some Tibetan officials, who lack the wisdom and competence required for promoting basic human happiness and the short and long term welfare of their own people, indulge in flattering Chinese officials and, collaborate with these Chinese officials who know nothing about Tibetans and work simply for their temporary fame indulging in fabricating impressive reports. In reality, the Tibetan people have not only undergone immeasurable sufferings, but large numbers have also unnecessarily lost their lives.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.
Charles Dickens
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is the possibility of happiness, intelligence and power that give life its sanctity, and they are absent in the case of a poor, misshapen, paralyzed, unthinking creature.
Helen Keller
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Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.
Jane Austen
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Ah, this, that we call happiness, how intimate a part of the soul it is, and of what little importance are the outside elements which seem to go to its making!
André Gide
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Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.
Samuel Johnson
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When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
William Shakespeare
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Stendhal
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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings.
Alexandre Dumas
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
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If you are one of earth's inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man's destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
Homer
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The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Bertrand Russell
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I didn't want to write a book on the Holocaust. To write such a book, to be responsible for such experiences, for such words — I didn't want that. I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
Elie Wiesel
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Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
Denis Diderot
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Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
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With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.
C. S. Lewis
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I am about to be married—and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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