“What ages us most is having time to speculate whether we are happy or not, for we usually come to the conclusion that we are not happy.” — Mrs Stuart Menzies, Recollections and Reflections by a Woman of No Importance
Tag: happiness
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“Money will not bring happiness… but it enables us to be unhappy very comfortably.” — Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole
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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
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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
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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
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“To strive too hard for one’s own happiness is self-defeating.” — Peter Singer, The Expanding Circle
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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
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“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
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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
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“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)
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