#happines

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. ↗

— David Duchovny

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Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

#bounty #champagne #classical-music #feasts #happiness

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ↗

— William Feather

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american women #bewildered #faces #maps #most

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#monstrosity #punished #seek #those #who

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. ↗

— James Thomson

#condition #dissatisfied #form #happiness #idea

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#consumed #earned #every #experience #grace