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Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone. ↗

— Andrea Corr

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. ↗

— Jane Austen

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I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil. ↗

— Anatole France

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

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