"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

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"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."

Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher

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"The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves."

Joseph Butler, English Clergyman

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"The gift of today enfold in grace."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Reading is a pleasurable paradise."

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"Summer brings sunshine, warm and flowering."

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"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

Denis Waitley, American Writer

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"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."

Louis D. Brandeis, American Judge

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"I've learned to feel good when I feel good.it's better to be driven around in a red porschethan to ownone. the luck of the fool is inviolate."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth."

William Blake, English Poet

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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, Greek Philosopher

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"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."

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"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."

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"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."

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"Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself."

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"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."

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"Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change."

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"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."

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"When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as men of science, they know that neither is infallible. But when two theologians differ, since there is no criteria to which either can appeal, there is nothing for it but mutual hatred and an open or covert appeal to force."

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"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."

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"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them."

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