#happiness

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

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I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty ↗

— Lemony Snicket

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I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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