"Happiness in the present is only shattered by……" — Douglas Horton
"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past."
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60 Quotes by Douglas Horton
Douglas Horton has 60 quotes on this site.
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Money is good, love is wealth.
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Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
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Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
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Why ask why? If it's raining it just is.
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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.
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Death is the final wake-up call.
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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.
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We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.
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If food were free, why work?
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Boring people are a reflection of boring people.
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To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
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Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint.
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More Comparison Quotes
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he…
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Widespread use of online voting will create the potential for abuse that will make the problems inherent in e-voting pale…
— Bob Barr
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
— Brendan Behan
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Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by…
— Annie Besant
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
— Tom Bodett
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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