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Letter "H" » Happiness
«Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.»
Author: George F. Burns
| About:
Happiness,
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
cigar, handle, meal
«Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.»
«Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.»
«For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.»
«False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Happiness,
Sharing
| Keywords:
communicated, renders, sensible, stern
«For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness,
Morality
| Keywords:
custom, decried, decry, degraded, earnest, moralist, moralists, Two thousand, unworthy
«False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.»
«Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.»
«For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist, it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart -- then no problem.»
Author: Dalai Lama
| About:
Compassion,
Faith,
Happiness,
Religion,
Right
| Keywords:
absolutely, atheist, compassionate, exercise, Individual right, individual rights, may not, not absolutely, No problem, okay, radical, religious, remain
«Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.»
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