#happin

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

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Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. ↗

— David Lee Roth

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Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Jim Ryun

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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#happiness #dreams

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. ↗

— Thucydides

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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

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