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.
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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
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A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
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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.
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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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Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
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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.
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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.
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That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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What worse you expect?
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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
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QUEEN VICTORIA
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AVIJEET DAS
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FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER
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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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Hope for the best, ‘never’ prepare for the rest, and treat yourself as present’s guest.
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The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.
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Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.
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Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
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ANDRE GIDE
Much more happiness is to be found in the world than gloomy eyes discover.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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DREW BARRYMORE
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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
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MATTHEW ARNOLD
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DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL
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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.
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There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
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Since sorrow never comes too late And happiness too swiftly flies.
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How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. -G.W. Von Leibnitz.
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Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.
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