A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty; but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.