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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. ↗

— Bo Derek

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. ↗

— George Eliot

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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it. ↗

— William Feather

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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. ↗

— Richard Bach

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