#happiness

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#experience

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. ↗

— Andy Rooney

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#call #choose #life #more #our

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #perspective #success #world #experience

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. ↗

— William Dean Howells

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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

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