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For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The day of individual happiness has passed. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

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The gratification of desire is not happiness. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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