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Happiness Quotes by Andre Gide
- To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
- Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
- Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
- Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
- Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
- Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave…
- What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
- The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?
- Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
- No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since…
- In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I…
- It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Friendship is essentially a partnership. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach