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So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great. ↗

— Rick Derringer

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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about. ↗

— Hilary Duff

#attractive #get #guys #happiness #like

These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercise, aerobics, martial arts for those who prefer concentrating on physical skills. Any specialization or expertise that one finds enjoyable and where one can improve one’s knowledge over time. The important thing, however, is the attitude toward these disciplines. If one prays in order to be holy, or exercises to develop strong pectoral muscles, or learns to be knowledgeable, then a great deal of the benefit is lost. The important thing is to enjoy the activity for its own sake, and to know that what matters is not the result, but the control one is acquiring over one’s attention. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#happiness #art

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ↗

— Epictetus

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and when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt-this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#good #good health #happiness #health #memory

To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#connection #happiness #inspiration #love #religion