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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ↗

— Plato

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Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning. ↗

— Andrei Platonov

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. ↗

— Plutarch

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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

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Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life. ↗

— Emily Procter

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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