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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. ↗

— Andre Gide

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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years. ↗

— Graham Greene

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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ↗

— Epictetus

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. ↗

— John Harrigan

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. ↗

— Robert Herrick

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I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers. ↗

— Alfred Day Hershey

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