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"We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
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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."
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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."
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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."
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"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."
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"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."
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"Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like."
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"You will find the greatest happiness in letting yourself be."
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"Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security."
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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."
Emotion

"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."
Parenting

"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
Politics

"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."
Culture

"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."
Humor

"You can only be twice someone's age once."
Age

"AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call 'The Presumption of Sickness,' i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative."
Health

"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."
Society

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
Media

"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."
Technology
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