“ Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
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“ The secret of happiness is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing "to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot," to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature? ”
- Charles Du Bos- Copy
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“ The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ”
- Allan K. Chalmers- Copy
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“ But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. ”
- John B. Sheerin- Copy
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“ If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again! ”
- Robert Gilfillan- Copy
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“ I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late. ”
- Max Kauffman- Copy
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“ Pennies do not come from heaven — they have to be earned here on earth. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. ”
- Gittel Hudnick- Copy
- 1.8K
“ The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
- 223
“ Enjoy your happiness while you have it; and while you have it, do not too closely scrutinize its foundation. ”
- Joseph Farrell- Copy
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