Happiness Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness Illusion Inspirational Pleasure Truth
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If an illusion makes a man happy, destroy that illusion! Because happiness must come via the truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone. — Marcello Mastroianni Copy Share Image
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Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
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Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
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