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Quotations by Subject: Happiness
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And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.
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Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, 2011
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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Rita Mae Brown
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
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Robertson Davies
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
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Roy M. Goodman
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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Storm Jameson
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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The laws of Manu
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
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