#happiness

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim. ↗

— William Shenstone

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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#ideal #imagination #work

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. ↗

— Isabelle Eberhardt

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