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| The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell The Silver Stallion 1926) |
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| I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D. Salinger) |
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| Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. (Oscar Levant) |
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| The basis of optimism is sheer terror. (Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891) |
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| One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. (Rita Mae Brown) |
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| To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. (Gustave Flaubert) |
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| I find nothing more depressing than optimism. (Paul Fussell) |
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| Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. (Albert Schweitzer) |
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| A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. (Anatole France) |
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| The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. (Alfred Lord Tennyson) |
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| Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. (Ayn Rand) |
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| An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Susan J. Bissonette) |
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| Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. (Jean Jacques Rousseau) |
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| The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. (William Cowper) |
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| Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Helen Keller) |
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| The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. (Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Physiologie du Gout 1825) |
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| Man is the artificer of his own happiness. (Henry David Thoreau Journal January 21 1838) |
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| Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. (The laws of Manu) |
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| The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim) |
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| It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. (Kin Hubbard) |
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| Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. (E. H. Chapin) |
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| Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. (Lao-tzu) |
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| Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. (Christopher Morley) |
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| Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination. (Roy M. Goodman) |
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| If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it. (Immanuel Hermann Fichte) |
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