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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.


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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
AMBROSE BIERCE Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
ANONYMOUS Happiness, noun. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
AMBROSE BIERCE There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.” ~ Ambrose ...
J.J. MCAVOY Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
JOSEPH CONRAD Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
JOSEPH CONRAD No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution,...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Happiness comes from Responsibility. Misery from Blame.
LORRIN L. LEE They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it,...
JOSEPH CONRAD The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. �...
VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive bu...
DEAN KOONTZ What is considered moksha of the Vitraags [the enlightened ones]? It is where despite having a physi...
DADA BHAGWAN Motivation is an awakening of the mind to be kind with own words towards others; Inspiration is an a...
ANUJ SOMANY The fruit of the intent of serving others (sevabhaav) is worldly happiness, and the fruit of the int...
DADA BHAGWAN The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight. [Lat., Levis est consolatio ex miseria al...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
ARISTOTLE Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery; with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and mis...
BLAISE PASCAL Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.
AHMED MOSTAFA Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.
STEPHEN RICHARDS Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect...
C.S. LEWIS Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.
ENGLISH PROVERB The rest of us can find happiness in misery.
FALL OUT BOY Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ou...
THOMAS HOBBES He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of o...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ...
THOMAS HOBBES Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
WILLIAM COBBETT There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
DANTE ALIGHIERI There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
DANTE ALIGHIERI Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life
ALEXANDER SMITH Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
ALEXANDER SMITH Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness...
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. Happiness induced morality does not say anything about a content of a person's character. The real m...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Misery builds character, happiness makes cheesecake.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
LYDIA M. CHILD I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO Happiness is often hidden in misery; light appears brighter in darkness.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA “If you want to enjoy true happiness first learn to give. In giving you get back more as God is ha...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless ...
BOETHIUS Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happi...
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. Be agreeable. It raises the selfesteem of others and makes you feel good about yourself.
BRIAN TRACY The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
MARKUS ZUSAK Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
BARUCH SPINOZA The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the ...
ANNIE DILLARD This is different from the sensation of a rebirth.This sensation is about discovery and finding out ...
KALEB KILTON To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from ...
VICTOR HUGO A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s ha...
ZAMAN ALI Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
DANIEL WEBSTER Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable
DANIEL WEBSTER Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR. A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off...
JOHN TYLER The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The more we practice sympathetic joy, the more we come to realize that the happiness we share with o...
SHARON SALZBERG My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repe...
C. S. LEWIS All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind ...
ARISTOTLE Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion o...
LEONARDO DA VINCI Happy is the arising of the awakened.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.
BRANDON SANDERSON The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a youn...
ERIC HOFFER The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON True religion . . . is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of ot...
WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My idea of an agreeable person, is a person who agrees with me
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The sensation that you experience in the body, is your spirit, but it’s so attached, that it’s h...
ROSHAN SHARMA The foods that promote longevity, virtue, strength, health, happiness, and joy; are juicy, smooth, s...
BHAGAVAD GITA For some, true happiness is found in objects. For the rest, it is found in the happiness of others.
RICHARD BELLZON Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never...
HELEN KELLER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness
HAROLD KUSHNER Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up.
MIKE VANCE When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery...
THORNTON WILDER More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
THOMAS TRAHERNE People create their own happiness and also cause their own misery
DEE COLONESE When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery.
DADA BHAGWAN We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others
HOUSSAYE The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of c...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
GROUCHO MARX Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hou...
RVM The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its ow...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every...
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