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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ↗

— Clara Schumann

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The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness. ↗

— Seal

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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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