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Quote on a picture of vineyards in the Rhône Valley between Condrieu and Vienne.

“Money will not bring happiness… but it enables us to be unhappy very comfortably.” — Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole

Author YahooeyPosted on December 17, 2022December 25, 2022Categories QuotationsTags happiness, Mary Pettibone Poole, Money4 Comments on Quote of the Day

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“Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.” — Claire Holden Rothman, The Heart Specialist

Author YahooeyPosted on July 23, 2022July 18, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Claire Holden Rothman, happinessLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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“You don’t ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point.” — Nick Hornby, How to be Good

Author YahooeyPosted on July 15, 2022July 12, 2022Categories QuotationsTags happiness, Nick HornbyLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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“Your brain’s primary function is to keep you alive, not to make you happy.” — Britt Frank, The Science of Stuck

Author YahooeyPosted on July 11, 2022July 11, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Britt Frank, happiness, survivalLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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“To strive too hard for one’s own happiness is self-defeating.” — Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle

Author YahooeyPosted on July 6, 2022July 5, 2022Categories QuotationsTags happiness, Peter Singer, self-defeatingLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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“A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.” — Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin

Author YahooeyPosted on June 28, 2022June 27, 2022Categories QuotationsTags happiness, Thomas Szasz, unhappiness3 Comments on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

Quote with a picture of Jamaica Kincaid at the Göteborg Book Fair in September 2019.

“How do you get to be a person who is made miserable because the weather changed its mind, because the weather doesn’t live up to your expectations? How do you get to be that way?” — Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

Author YahooeyPosted on May 25, 2022May 24, 2022Categories QuotationsTags expectations, happiness, Jamaica Kincaid, weather1 Comment on Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

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“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears.” — Alexander Smith, “Of Death and the Fear of Dying,” Dreamthorp

Author YahooeyPosted on May 24, 2022May 23, 2022Categories QuotationsTags Alexander Smith, happinessLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote on a picture of Pau Castle.

“Intense and present happiness is heartbreakingly ephemeral; as soon as you notice it you dispel it, like blocking yourself from remembering a word by trying too hard to retrieve it.” — Tim Kreider, “Averted Vision,” New York Times (2009-08-02)

Author YahooeyPosted on May 12, 2022May 11, 2022Categories QuotationsTags ephemeral, happiness, Tim KreiderLeave a comment on Quote of the Day

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Quote on a picture of bronze bench from La Sala de los Magos y los Magos Universales (1993) by Alejandro Colunga.

“Kids aren’t supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.” — Susan Wiggs, Summer at Willow Lake

Author YahooeyPosted on November 21, 2021November 19, 2021Categories QuotationsTags children, happiness, Susan Wiggs4 Comments on Quote of the Day

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