A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
BERNARD LE BOVIER FONTENELLE A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
FONTENELLE Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
CHANNING POLLOCK There is no 'Key to Happiness'...the door is always open.
ANONYMOUS There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy...
J.D. SALINGER Open your eyes
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 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 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
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-...
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 Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ...
JOHN LENNON The surest cure for loneliness,
the quickest way to happiness,
is found in this, a simple ...
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.
WALTER BENJAMIN There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but...
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.
ANONYMOUS Don't sink too deep into yourself. That is the secret to happiness.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Happiness is the town you get through just after you pass through Anxiety.
If you detour around Anxi...
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.
WILLA SIBERT CATHER Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you...
TYGA Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE What worse you expect?
World's cheapest thing is happiness and it is scarce.
MAHRUKH Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be...
VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson–paying because you happen to be...
ALDOUS HUXLEY There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we...
SAMUEL JOHNSON 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.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a ver...
QUEEN VICTORIA The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happine...
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...
COLTVOS There is a happiness in failure too. At least you tried. There is a happiness in not reaching your g...
AVIJEET DAS Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, hav...
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.
PHILIP SIDNEY Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over ...
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.
GEORGE SAND The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It i...
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.
LANA DEL REY Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
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.
BRYANT H. MCGILL There is not a “true” happiness and a “false” happiness. Only happiness and meaning. The key...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness
ANDRE GIDE Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choice...
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.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We wo...
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.
C.S. LEWIS Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is...
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.
G.W. VON LEIBNITZ You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I ex...
LAWRENCE DURRELL My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
CHARLES SAATCHI Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Age is just a number. Being a grown up can disconnect you from common sense and true happiness. Grow...
NERISSA IRVING One of the main causes of anger is "expect from people".
LILY, PSYCHIC HEALER Any love or happiness given to anyone always comes back. Unfortunately we expect it from the same pe...
BRAHMAKUMARIS Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
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