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I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. ↗

— John Belushi

#happiness #i #state #time #want

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#catholicism #christianity #church #discipline #happiness

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. ↗

— John Green

#unhappiness #person

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. ↗

— Edward Lear

#happiness #nursery-rhymes #happy

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. ↗

— Anne Frank

#opinions #independence

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus [never tickle a sleeping dragon] ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#latin #motto #never-tickle-a-sleeping-dragon #sleep

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#black #craving #good #gratification #i

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy. ↗

— Criss Jami

#happiness #happy #inconsiderate #peace #problem

It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry -- school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general -- but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place. ↗

— Melanie Thernstrom

#uncertainty

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#exile #happiness #home #manners