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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ↗

— William Blake

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ↗

— Monica Edwards

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When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have. ↗

— Emily Blunt

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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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