#happines

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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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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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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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

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