#happin

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#happiness #loss #love #memory #mother

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

#class #construction #greatest #greatest happiness #happiness

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#come #materialism #meaning #will

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. ↗

— Plutarch

#fortunate #less #speak #than #your

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

#country #degree #depend #family #fear

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#happiness #little #much #station #too

If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied. ↗

— George Westinghouse

#fellow #fellow man #happiness #i #man

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society. ↗

— Colin Powell

#doing #now #occupy #occupy wall street #others

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#every #farther #goes #happiness #happy