#happiness

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ↗

— Don Marquis

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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. ↗

— Karl Marx

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My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. ↗

— Diana Ross

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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. ↗

— Frank McCourt

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Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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I don't know exactly what covetise is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offence at the beauty of it. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. ↗

— William Morris

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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

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