"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."

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"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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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"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."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

William James, American Philosopher

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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."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

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

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

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

"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."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"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."

"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

"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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"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf."

"A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."

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