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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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80% of man's happiness is based on love - love for others, love for self, love for family, love for friends, love for work, love for nature, and love for being loved. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

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There is something innocently beautiful about watching two people behave as though no one else existed, and lovingly act silly together. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. ↗

— Henry Drummond

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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To die, he thought, was to escape passion's grasp, but that was the last thing he wanted. Instead he wished to be seized by passion and pinioned, held in its palm forever—he could not imagine any other existence as embracing any real happiness. ↗

— David Guterson

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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