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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. ↗

— George Santayana

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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. ↗

— Pete Rose

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ↗

— Robert Frost

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