#pines

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#below #enough #happiness #know #man

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bringing #capable #causing #children #considerably

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#amount #been #deeply #even #given

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#calculated #established #good #government #happiness

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #integrity #life #loyalty #mindless

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achievement #consciousness #proceeds #state #values

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#bad #keys #memory

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#harmony #say #think #you

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#broken #conditions #first #happiness #link

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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