"No memories of felicity save with faint ruffle of sorrow"
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Category: Happiness
"This is going to be a happy day. Another happy day."
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
"Happiness is always a coincidence."
"I had said to Mrs. Boscawen at table, "I believe this is about as much as can be made of life." I was really happy. My gay ideas of London in youth were realized and consolidated."
"We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die.... You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that applyto every human being on this planet."
"The root of the discontent in American women is that they are too well educated.... There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are."
"I have very lately read the Prince of Abyssinia [Samuel Johnson's Rasselas]MI am almost equally charmed and shocked at it--the style, the sentiments are inimitable--but the subject is dreadful--and, handled as it is by Dr. Johnson, might make any young, perhaps old, person tremble--O heavens! how dreadful, how terrible it is to be told by a man of his genius and knowledge, in so affectingly probable a manner, that true, real happiness is ever unattainable in this world!"
"Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight."
"... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness."
"Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction."
"Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland"
"The word "forbearance" is the key to a happy home."
"Out of the deep depths of misfortune comes bliss."
"Your children and grandchildren will have their share of happiness; there's no need to work a like a horse for them."
"Doing good is the greatest happiness."
"Extreme happiness begets tragedy."
"Happiness does not notice the passing of time."
"To be content is to be happy."
"In the midst of happiness, one may not appreciate what happiness is."
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