#happines

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror. ↗

— Chris Bailey

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

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Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life. ↗

— Emily Procter

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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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Happiness depends upon ourselves. ↗

— Aristotle

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