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Letter "H" » Happiness
«To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
good health, lacking, requirements, selfish
«To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.»
«To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,»
Author: Horace Walpole
| About:
Action,
Common sense,
Happiness,
Philosophy,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
bless, duties, respectfully, submit
«To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.»
«Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.»
«To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Concern,
Happiness
| Keywords:
concerned, must not
«To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something»
«To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness»
«To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Elderly,
Happiness
| Keywords:
especially, flowing, future day, germ, germs, isolate, isolated, isolates, isolating, remote, remotest, stream, unknown, youth
«To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Happiness
| Keywords:
ambition, at home, The Ultimate, ultimate
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