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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. ↗


— Henry Fielding


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At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was only remembering a dream? She was alone among the rocks on a dark coast beside the sea. The water surged upward and fell back languidly, and in the distance she heard surf breaking slowly on a sandy shore. It was comforting to be this close to the surface of the ocean and gaze at the intimate nocturnal details of its swelling and ebbing. And as she listened to the faraway breakers rolling up onto the beach, she became aware of another sound entwined with the intermittent crash of waves: a vast horizontal whisper across the bossom of the sea, carrying an ever-repeated phrase, regular as a lighthouse flashing: Dawn will be breaking soon. She listened a long time: again and again the scarcely audible words were whispered across the moving water. A great weight was being lifted slowly from her; little by little her happiness became more complete, and she awoke. Then she lay for a few minutes marveling the dream, and once again fell asleep. ↗


— Paul Bowles


#happiness #life #dreams

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half. ↗


— Jilly Cooper


#drink #half #happiness #i #other

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ↗


— William Cowper


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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. ↗


— Quentin Crisp


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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow. ↗


— Joseph Butler


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Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. ↗


— Joseph Butler


#appetites #consists #enjoyment #happiness #nature

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?' ↗


— Alastair Campbell


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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗


— Thomas Carlyle


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