"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

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"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

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"Happiness isn't about pretending there's no pain. It's about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience."

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Song of praise: Be joyful and count your blessings. There are so many things to be thankful for; the gift of being alive, blessings of a new day to hope and dream, the gift of families, the gift of children, the gift of friends, gift of people who make you laugh and smiles, the gift of strangers who show you kindness,the gift of nature, gift of educators, gift of preachers and many more."

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"You don't need much to give. Give what you have."

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"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"As long as you're not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy."

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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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."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."

Humanity

"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

Gender

"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."

Perception

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

Desire

"This woman lawyer said the best men wanted to be pure for their wives, and even if they weren't pure, they wanted to be the ones to teach their wives about sex. Of course they would try to persuade a girl to have sex and say they would marry her later, but assoon as she gave in, they would lose all respect for her and start saying that if she did that with them she would do that with other men and they would end up by making her lifemiserable."

Relationship

"When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church."

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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."

"The righteous shall rejoice."

"Happiness isn't about pretending there's no pain. It's about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience."

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"You don't need much to give. Give what you have."

"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."

"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

"As long as you're not hurting anyone or anything, including your future self, do only that which makes you happy."

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

Explore more quotes by Sylvia Plath

"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."

"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."

"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."

"Talking about my fears to others feeds it."

"Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse."

"I must get my soul back from you, I am killing my flesh without it."

"It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther."

"When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experience, which is, as it was for James Joyce, my kind of religion, and necessary for me...as the confession and absolution for a Catholic in church."