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There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry t...

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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmon...

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Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, ...

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José Ortega y GassetAn Interpretation of Universal History

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of "the mad woman of the house." An...

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For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness termin...

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Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as n...

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Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this lon...

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Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty Days

The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be...

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I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the ...

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Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness an...

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I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a...

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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not parti...

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To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though...

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Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints,...

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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can gi...

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The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion...

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Karl MarxCritique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest spr...

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If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Sto...

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'Revolutionary Road' is a fascinating study of the human condition of a fragmenting marriage and the...

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If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased.

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and t...

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Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile in...

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A big bee, a golden furry fellow, crept into a freesia, and the delicate flower leaned over, swung, ...

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Nos-tal-gic,’ Akira said, as though it were a word he had been struggling to find. Then he said a wo...

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We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just w...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the ...

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health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, educ...

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It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Kurzes Glück kann jeder.

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Kurt TucholskySchloß Gripsholm / Rheinsberg

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the wor...

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Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole ti...

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Lance ArmstrongA Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...

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Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone aro...

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I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband only another man would make me th...

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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I ex...

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Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sun...

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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause ...

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Happiness is pleasure without regret

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else i...

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Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of h...

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

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Seize the moments of happiness, Love and be Loved!That is the only reality in the world, all else is...

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I think the motive force of all our action is, after all, personal happiness.

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on...

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Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happ...

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Toate familiile fericite se aseamănă între ele. Fiecare familie nefericită este nefericită în felul ...

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They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness ...

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Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet seclud...

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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...

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He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly...

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Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human ne...

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They say: misfortunes, sufferings...well, if someone said to me right now, this minute: do you want ...

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Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be h...

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[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

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As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic:...

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Leon TrotskyTerrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

I guess when I feel something, then I just feel it and I go for it. I make my decisions about what’s...

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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

There is a certain proper and luxurious way of lying in bed. Confucius, that great artist of life, "...

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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to ...

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Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I ca...

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There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. O...

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The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

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Lois LowryAnastasia Krupnik

All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin.

We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear.

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LordeLorde - Pure Heroine Songbook

Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovas...

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One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a g...

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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go and it makes the end so easy.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and...

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Louisa May AlcottKitty's Class Day and Other Stories

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.

For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious ...

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Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...

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There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the ca...

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Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and ...

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I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like.

But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to...

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