“ When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. ”
- William R. Alger- Copy
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“ His overthrow heaped happiness upon him; For then, and not till then, he felt himself, And found the blessedness of being little. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. ”
- Victor Robinson- Copy
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“ In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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“ Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall! ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Joys Are bubble-like — what makes them bursts them too. - Philip James Bailey, Festus. ”
- Philip James Bailey- Copy
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“ How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy! - King Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half. ”
- Richard Cobden- Copy
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“ Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, 'Joy is not in things; it is in us… ”
- Joan Borysenko- Copy
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“ While success is necessary to happiness, it must be remembered that the term is a relative one; in other words, that there are many degrees of success, among which the highest are neither attainable by all, nor essential to felicity. ”
- William Mathews- Copy
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“ A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ”
- Charles Edward Montague- Copy
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“ For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. ”
- Ernest Becker- Copy
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“ That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ I love the sound of a woman in the throes of rapture - but not screamers. ”
- Kevin Kline- Copy
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“ Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. ”
- Edmund Waller- Copy
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“ I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease! ”
- Georgia Douglas Johnson- Copy
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