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The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
~ William Blake ~
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a
~ Samuel Johnson ~
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
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To fill the hour-that is happiness.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere.
~ Jane Austen ~
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Anonymous ~
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
~ George Santayana ~
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
~ George Santayana ~
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
~ George Eliot ~
In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.
~ Francis Quarles ~
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
~ Anonymous ~
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Life will not be pleasurable if we don't embrace the good and the bad sides. We can not tell the difference between pleasure and pain if we have not felt both. Experience gives us knowledge and it is left for us to decide what we need it for. Good and evil are both at our disposal and will always bow to our choices. The reason man's need is insatiable is because happiness has no limit. The more something makes us happy, the more we crave for it.
~ Lil Destar ~
In order to play with the kids, I had to put aside my maturity and allow the childish nature in me to completely possess me. And once again, I was able to experience the kind of happiness I haven't felt since I became an adult, since life took away my innocence. What a beautiful way to start the new year!
~ Lil Destar ~
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