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How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
Chris Bailey
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Frank McCourt
You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.
Albert Camus
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell
The true test of one's mettle is how many times you will try before you give up.
Stephen Richards
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Thomas Jefferson
Believe all things are possible With Cosmic Ordering.
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
Omar Bongo
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
To fill the hour??that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugo Black
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
George Eliot
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya