#happin

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to. ↗

— Brenda Fassie

#because #happiness #i #make #me

What is the worth of anything, But for the happiness 'twill bring? ↗

— Richard Owen Cambridge

#bring #happiness #worth

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#dentist #drill #hand #happiness #having

Desire is individual. Happiness is common. ↗

— Julian Casablancas

#common #desire #individual

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. ↗

— Nick Cave

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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#does #enables #humor #little #move

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes, truth from the Hebrew Christian Bible has enabled individual liberty to prevail over secular empires because it is a practical message about reality from man’s Creator. In their quest for liberty, Americans focused upon the conspicuously self-evident “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” It is the governing character of these principles (laws), such as humility, the Golden Rule, and the Ten Commandments, that leads to success. This is the sure foundation upon which man’s right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” rests. Called “virtue” by America’s Founding Fathers, the impartial and divine element frees man to do what is right. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). ↗

— David A. Norris

#freedom #government #judeo-christian #liberty #life

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ↗

— William Cowper

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