Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. _ George A. Sheehan

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I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ― Alexandre Dumas

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death ― Aeschylus

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ― Gustave Flaubert

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Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.

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Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness. ― Isra

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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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