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Happiness
«If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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Happiness
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Almost always, happier, wanted
«If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Dreams,
Happiness,
Life,
Success
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Advances, by the hour, common, commoner, confidently, direction, dreams, endeavored, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, meet, To Live, unexpected
«If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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Happiness
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condition, diversion, diversions, in order, seek
«If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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Happiness
| Keywords:
accomplished, happier, wished
«If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.»
Author: James Allen
(Statesman)
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Happiness,
Self-control,
Self-discipline
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retorted
«If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.»
Author: William Lyon Phelps
(Educator, Journalist, Professor)
| About:
Happiness,
Men and Women
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American Woman, an American, consisted, cow, cowed, ease, happiest
«I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Happiness
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gardener, gardeners, odd, savant, talk to
«If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.»
«If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.»
«If happiness is the only prize we seek in life, then we will be guaranteed to spend a good part of our lives deep in disappointment, focused on a very small prize indeed.»
Author: Robert White
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Happiness