#happiness

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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You find happiness where you find it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

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I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ↗

— Margaret Lee Runbeck

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But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. ↗

— Chris Evans

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth. ↗

— Jane Siberry

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