#happiness

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

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Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts. ↗

— W.H. Auden

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But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. ↗

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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Be with people who like you for who you are, not what you have. ↗

— Robert Tew

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We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough. ↗

— David Levithan

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The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy. ↗

— Robert Tew

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Existing sucks living is the ride of your life. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

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