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Happiness Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- [I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which…
- I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended…
- Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not…
- In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who…
- There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else…
- Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
- Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement…
- Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
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- 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
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- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach