#happines

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. ↗

— Graham Greene

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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ↗

— Epictetus

#way-to-be #worry

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. ↗

— John Harrigan

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! ↗

— William Hazlitt

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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

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You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. ↗

— Horace

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