#happiness

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ↗

— Sivananda

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Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important. ↗

— Antonio Gala

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ↗

— George Orwell

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The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

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We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings. ↗

— Kenichi Fukui

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away? ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness full of doubts and strengths. I wonder if happiness is possible. It is a state of mind, but I'd hate to be a bore all my life, if only because of those I love around me. Happiness can change into unhappiness just for the sake of change. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the worship of God in the most delicate of his works and in the most sublime? A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in -what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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