#happiness

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#better #better place #continues #dalai #dalai lama

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being. ↗

— Red Skelton

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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. ↗

— Adam Smith

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You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. ↗

— Franz Schubert

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My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ↗

— Clara Schumann

#continue #fairer #happiness #imagination #living

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness. ↗

— Seal

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I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anxious #dependence #enjoy #future #present