Quotes with life-and-death

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  • Sir Hugh Walpole Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
    Sir Hugh Walpole
    British writer
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  • William James Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Leo C. Rosten Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • August Strindberg Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Andy Rooney Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Barry Sanders Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Douglas Jerrold Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Arnold Bennett Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Szasz Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Agnes Martin Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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