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Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) #102 -
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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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.
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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.
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
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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.
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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.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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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.
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Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
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Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
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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.
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