#pines

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. ↗

— Bette Davis

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As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism. ↗

— Cofer Black

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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

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I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving. ↗

— Alain Delon

#giving #happiness #i #knew #real

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. ↗

— Bo Derek

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. ↗

— John Dewey

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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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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

#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great

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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