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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. ↗

— George Santayana

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The will of man is his happiness. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Where fear is, happiness is not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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