#happines

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Where fear is, happiness is not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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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

#experience

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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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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