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To describe happiness is to diminish it. ↗

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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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

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The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness. ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

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Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. ↗

— Bob Goddard

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Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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The desire of intimacy is the desire to share one's innermost self with another ↗