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"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree." Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Rate this Quote
"A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it." Malcolm Stevenson Forbes 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." Henry Ford 4.4545 average rating Rate this Quote
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." Anne Frank 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same." Anne Frank 4.6154 average rating Rate this Quote
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it." Benjamin Franklin 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration." Benjamin Franklin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it." Don Fraser 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." Sigmund Freud 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone." Sigmund Freud 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman." Betty Naomi Friedan 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?" Erich Fromm 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." Robert Lee Frost 2.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." Dr. Thomas Fuller 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness." Dr. Thomas Fuller 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 4.2857 average rating Rate this Quote
"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents." John W(illiam) Gardner 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents." John W(illiam) Gardner 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to." Stuti Garg 2.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
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