#happiness

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable. ↗

— Apoorve Dubey

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Over thinking ruins moods and kills good vibes. ↗

— SupaNova Slom

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Let your past be your spring-board, not your quicksand. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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A healthy choice for your overall health and well-being is one of a happy and positive disposition. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. ↗

— Olivia Goldsmith

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Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. ↗

— Joyce Grenfell

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From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

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There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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