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Happiness

«Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.»
Author: Charles Gow | About: Happiness, Society | Keywords: worthless
«Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.»
«Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their happiness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the serving»
Author: Harry Marsh | About: Happiness, Honor, Mankind | Keywords: honors, serving, The Building
«Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.»
«May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.»
Author: Richard L. Evans | About: Happiness
«Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.»
«Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | About: Happiness | Keywords: enjoys
«Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness»
«Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,»
«Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | About: Happiness, Humanity, Mankind | Keywords: hence