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Happiness

«Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life»
Author: Aphra Behn | About: Happiness, Love, Marriage | Keywords: age of, An Age, dull, happy hour
«Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.»
«Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.»
«Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.»
Author: Harold S. Geneen (Businessman) | About: Growth, Happiness | Keywords: financial
«Everywhere you go, take a smile with you.»
Author: Sasha Azevedo (Actress, Athlete, Model) | About: Happiness | Keywords: everywhere, smile
«Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below»
«Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | About: Communication, Happiness | Keywords: fortunate
«Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.»
«Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one»
«Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstaking»

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