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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain? ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

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Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

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If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it. ↗

— Evita Peron

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My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance. ↗

— Katy Perry

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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Plato

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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

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

— Plutarch

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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

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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

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