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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.


Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

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BERNARD LE BOVIER FONTENELLE Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
CHANNING POLLOCK There is no 'Key to Happiness'...the door is always open.
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Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your porta...
LISA CYPERS KAMEN I get way too much happiness from good food.
ELIZABETH OLSEN too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
AMY TAN Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
PIERRE CORNEILLE Happiness is a great contentment.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control o...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is history but a fable agreed upon?
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, o...
RODOLFO COSTA The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
THOMAS HUXLEY Expect no greater happiness in Eternity, than to rejoice in God
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MUHAMMAD YUNUS A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
LAO-TZU 'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
TAISSA FARMIGA Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
CHARLES DICKENS It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obsta...
JACQUES BENIGUE BOSSUET Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Triumphing over great difficulties can lead to great happiness.
STEPHEN RICHARDS Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
ANTONIO GALA The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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JANE AUSTEN There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but...
JANE AUSTEN Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
DAVID MITCHELL Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
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RODNEY LOVELL To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
SYDNEY SMITH That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
WILLA CATHER That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
WILLA CATHER That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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BERNIE BICKERSTAFF There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
THICH NHAT HANH There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
WAYNE DYER There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
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GEORGE ORWELL There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to...
COLTVOS The one who overcomes egotism rids themselves of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to a...
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FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
JACK KEROUAC It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
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ALAN MOORE To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNITZ To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
G. WILHELM LEIBNIZ There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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OSHO Hope for the best, ‘never’ prepare for the rest, and treat yourself as present’s guest.
ANUROOP TYAGI The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.
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JAMES RHODES Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.
MARIE OSMOND ...there is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perha...
GüNTER GRASS Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
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JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness
ANDRE GIDE Lover scuttles his body, because he sinks in happiness. (L'amoureux saborde son corps, - Car il coul...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.
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DREW BARRYMORE Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is ...
DENNIS PRAGER Love is the only highway to happiness.
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DALE E. TURNER You don't make a road to happiness, happiness makes a road to you.
JASON CAPE To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive
MATTHEW ARNOLD Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happ...
WILLIAM BLAKE Happiness is peculiar, it very much feels like ''come on now that's enough'' If i'm happy for too lo...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Charity (Daan) means to make another living being happy, whether it is a human being or some animals...
DADA BHAGWAN The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. BRADLEY A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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JOSEF PIEPER Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.
THOMAS GRAY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. -G.W. Von Leibnitz.
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MARINE LE PEN A man who lives a part, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In its...
JOHN LE CARRé A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world
JOHN LE CARRE After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.
SIMON LE BON Just watch the interlopers from all over the world come and install themselves in our home. They wan...
MARINE LE PEN Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability.
MARINE LE PEN I do believe very much in movie as a one-man-show. I think that where I've watched movie go wron...
JOHN LE CARRE I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee h...
JOHN LE CARRE For instance, on a small business computer from Hewlett-Packard, the word 'Microsoft' may never appe...
CHRIS LE TOCQ France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they...
MARINE LE PEN A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE