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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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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— William Shakespeare

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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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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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