#happiness

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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

— Red Skelton

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Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance. ↗

— Irène Némirovsky

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Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. ↗

— George A. Smith

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ↗

— August Strindberg

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The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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