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"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy"
Mark Twain, Author
"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails"
Euripides, Poet
"Happiness is a direction, not a place"
Sydney J. Harris, Journalist
"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us"
Ashley Montagu, Scientist
"Love is trembling happiness"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"
Jane Austen, Writer
"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness"
Richard Bach, Novelist
"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness"
Julia Roberts, Actress
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else"
Bette Davis, Actress
"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable"
Leo Rosten, Novelist
"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness"
Don Marquis, Journalist
"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values"
Ayn Rand, Writer
"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness"
Anatole France, Novelist
"Happiness does not consist in self-love"
Joseph Butler, Clergyman
"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels"
Bertolt Brecht, Poet
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward"
Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product"
Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past"
Andre Maurois, Writer
"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember"
Oscar Levant, Composer
"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens"
Andy Rooney, Journalist
"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness"
George Sand, Novelist
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself"
Alice Walker, Author
"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere"
Agnes Repplier, Writer
"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude"
Dale Carnegie, Writer
"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself"
Sam Levenson, Author
"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand"
Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist
"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else"
Alphonse Karr, Critic
"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves"
Lydia M. Child, Activist
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