#happiness

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. ↗

— John Lubbock

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I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut. ↗

— Josh Lucas

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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

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I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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