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" When ambition ends, happiness begins. "
Thomas Merton
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" Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality. "
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" Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. "
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" I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus. "
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" To describe happiness is to diminish it. "
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" The groundwork of all happiness is health. "
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" I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it. "
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" True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. "
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" Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. "
Plato
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" Desire is individual. Happiness is common. "
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" When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. "
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" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. "
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" Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't. "
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" When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. "
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" Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. "
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" Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. "
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" I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. "
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" The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. "
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" Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. "
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" And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin. "
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" One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. "
Gustave Flaubert
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" Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. "
Aristotle
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" Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality. "
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" 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. "
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