#happines

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#glow #hard #just #recall

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#great #happiness #secrets

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#cloud #enough #evaporates #like #long

When ambition ends, happiness begins. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#begins #ends #happiness

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. ↗

— Debra Messing

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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#events #happiness #matter #mind #tides

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#actions #happiness #intended #pain #pleasure

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#complex #emotions #europeans #experiencing #handle

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. ↗

— Brad Garrett

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