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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

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You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired. ↗

— Sergey Brin

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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

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I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

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Beauty is the promise of happiness. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. ↗

— Albert Camus

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