#happiness

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. ↗

— Herbert Read

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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

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

— Andy Rooney

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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#bad #keys #memory

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#harmony #say #think #you

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

— Leo Tolstoy

#broken #conditions #first #happiness #link

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#give #happiness #human #human life #life

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror. ↗

— Chris Bailey

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