#happines

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

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If you want to be happy, be. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ↗

— Spike Milligan

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I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

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I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness. ↗

— Brittany Murphy

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The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

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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

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You find happiness where you find it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

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I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

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