#pines

Independence is happiness. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. ↗

— John Buchan

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. ↗

— Richard Bach

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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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Happiness is always a coincidence. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

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