#happiness

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness. ↗

— Jean-Paul Marat

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

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You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. ↗

— John Mayer

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There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy. ↗

— Deborah Norville

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Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ↗

— Michael Novak

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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ↗

— Sophocles

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