#happines

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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If things aren't sailing as smooth as the wind. Ask the Universe to Pencil you IN! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter. ↗

— Terri Apter

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ↗

— Storm Jameson

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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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