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“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”

Needs Has Beens Happiness Joy Degrees Satisfaction Happy Inner Peace Great Happiness Others Happiness High Notes

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.”

Ifs Has Beens Earth Happiness Born Planets Supposed To Be Planet Earth Picnics

Author:Jonathan Cainer

“You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.”

Thinking World Has Beens Truth Happiness Taken Seeing Depression Mood Unhappy Unhappiness Gray Veils Be True To Yourself Not Happy Seeing The World Bad Mood Haze

Book:The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

“In order to be happy, think of the ills you have been spared.”

Thinking Has Beens Happiness Order

Author:Joseph Joubert

“I am YOUR biggest fan, I love each one of you because of the support that you took to me. I know that people been saying that I do this for money, but I really don't. I do this for YOU, for your loyalty, for everything you've done, you are doing and you'll do in my life. Music has been my whole life since I was 4 years old, but you turned it into a whole experience of happiness. I know that I am not perfect, and maybe I don't worth it to put on your headphones and listen to this 14-years-old wannabe, full of ego and that brag about almost everything, but it's not about that, it's about you”

“I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.”

Way Has Beens Happiness Joy Values Laughter

Author:Lucille Ball

“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”

Source: The Middle Span

“You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.”

Believe Has Beens Happiness

Author:Franz Schubert

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.”

Men World Should Firsts Has Beens Happiness Importance Unhappy Not Sure

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

Source: The Life and Writings of ...

“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”

Has Beens Moments Seems Past Happiness Turns Hours Pleasure Remembered Links Afternoon Tender Is The Night

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”

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“It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.”

Has Beens Happiness Affair Smell Noses Thrust Inference

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.”

Men Should Has Beens Whole Happiness Perfection Should Have Endeavor Ambitious Should Have Been Obtaining

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..., 1

“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”

Source: The Stones of Venice (Complete)