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It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Todd Akin

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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ↗

— James Allen

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