#happines

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! ↗

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ↗

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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

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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ↗

— William Morris

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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

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Happiness is the longing for repetition. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. ↗