#happin

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. ↗

— Henry Ford

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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. ↗

— Chanakya

#above #any #below #friends #friendships

I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year. ↗

— Camille Claudel

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There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#different-lives #discontentment #happiness #life #night

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#because #course #great #happiness #i

I started to discover the meaning of happiness when I started to discover--and practice--the art of acceptance. When I started to accept life for what it was and I started to accept whatever situation I was in as the way things were, I started to see that my happiness depended on my own attitude. When I started focusing on getting the most out of my life the way it was rather than trying to turn it into what I thought it should be, I started to realize that I was, indeed, becoming a much happier person. ↗

— Tom Walsh

#attitude #expectations #happiness #life #living

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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