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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ↗

— George Orwell

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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. ↗

— Julia Roberts

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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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To describe happiness is to diminish it. ↗

— Stendhal

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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