#happin

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ↗

— George Orwell

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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#be happy #even #happy #know #love

To describe happiness is to diminish it. ↗

— Stendhal

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. ↗

— Julia Ward Howe

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And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life #change

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. ↗

— Robert Orben

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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. ↗

— Ted Nugent

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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#even #exceptional #happiness #history #human

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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