Happiness
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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to do with Pat even. It was the melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them; that love begins with a human being but does not end in him; and that everything can be there: a human being, love, happiness, life — and that yet in some terrible way it is always too little, and grows ever less the more it seems.
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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