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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham
We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.
Herbie Hancock
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Dennis Prager
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
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From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
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It's impossible for an editor to know every source for every story.


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Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.


Brigitte Bardot
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Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.


Jason Mraz
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.


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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.


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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.


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Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
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Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.


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That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.


Maurice Maeterlinck
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