Quotes 241 till 260 of 596.
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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 17 -
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
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I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
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