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Happiness

«We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.»
«When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you?re in good shape.»
«Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.»
«What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them»
Author: Vincent McNabb | About: Happiness
«We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy»
«When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.»
Author: Sophocles | About: Happiness | Keywords: corpse
«What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.»
Author: Andre Gide | About: Happiness | Keywords: destroys, prepares
«What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.»
«When a man is happy, he does not hear the clock strike»
Author: German Proverb | About: Happiness
«What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.»