"It is a vain hope to make people…" — Thomas Carlyle

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• I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
• Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
• With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the… — Pietro Aretino
• For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short… — Aristotle
• Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of… — Aristotle
• It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until… — Richard Bach
• I can't relax. I'm not happy unless I'm working on stuff. 'SNL' is always a huge workload, as enjoyable as… — Fred Armisen
• No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
• The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
• Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine

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