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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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

— Epictetus

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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it. ↗

— Epictetus

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One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

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The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. ↗

— William Feather

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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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