#happines

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. ↗

— George Santayana

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. ↗

— George Santayana

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Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. ↗

— George Santayana

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The will of man is his happiness. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. ↗

— George A. Sheehan

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