#happiness

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

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In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves. ↗

— Erol Ozan

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Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his feelings, instead of the other way round ↗

— Marcellus Emants

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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. ↗

— Matthew Quick

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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within ↗

— Helen Keller

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Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

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Do what makes you happy, and don't care what others think. ↗

— Demi Lovato

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