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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.


Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
CONFUCIUS The words you can’t find, you borrow.
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GABRIELLE ZEVIN We are only deeply interested in others as we are interested in ourselves.
FAITH LONDON I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
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SATHESH KUMAR M We are responsible for ourselves and each other.
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We take great pains to persuade other that we are happy than in to think so ourselves.
CONFUCIUS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER If others are happy, we will be happy. If others suffer, ultimately we all suffer.
TENZIN GYATSO THE 14TH DALAI LAMA We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Hope and fear are inseparable. -La Rochefoucauld.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we a...
ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we a...
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we a...
ROBERT LYND Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
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Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than ot...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU We are very happy with that and customers seem to be very interested with what we are doing there.
GREG MAFFEI 29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely bec...
JAMES C. DOBSON If you are happy, you will find everything or everyone happy around you and how to make yourself hap...
SUPERNA BATHEJA We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that ...
MONTESQUIEU If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that ot...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or t...
C. JOYBELL C. We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
DOROTHY DIX Whether you choose to move on from your struggles and enjoy life or waddle in your misery, life will...
GERMANY KENT We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
JULES RENARD If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.
STEPHEN RICHARDS A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND The farmer in us makes us do the things we do
SOTONYE ANGA We are more than happy to move forward but ... not our call.
TONY AGNONE Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping your...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR China isn't interested in making relations any more complicated than they already are. China isn't t...
LIU JIANGYONG When we were kids jokers were found in circus and they used to make us happy but,as we are growing t...
ARSLAN AHMAD The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH On a day like this, we women would be completely and utterly happy just to have a man hold our cold ...
KIM DONG HWA There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it’...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH You are worth more than you think you are
SOTONYE ANGA We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with succes...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why ...
CLINTON KELLY Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La ...
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are very ecstatic to have reached this goal. We are more than happy to be able to share this with...
KYLE MCCAUGHN Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap
SOTONYE ANGA The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at th...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER The chakras in your body are as to galaxies on the body of God.
L.J. VANIER We are here to create, not destroy.
VIKTORIJA GRUMBLYTė The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY We are more fulfilled when we are involved in something bigger than ourselves.
JOHN GLENN If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book...
LEMONY SNICKET We knew coming in this would be their biggest game, being their rival. We wanted to win in our last ...
AARON WIES We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We are franker towards others than towards ourselves
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE From a partner standpoint, if you're interested in making partners happy, that's pretty good.
JAMES HANLEY If you pity his loneliness, be his company...
PHILIP T. M. One of the greatest days in Austrian ski history. We are all happy, very happy. You can only dream o...
HANS PUM We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by reasons which have o...
BLAISE PASCAL We are happy to be on track with our targets. As we continue to improve efficiency and implement de-...
BRUCE ANDERSON She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
IMMANUEL KANT In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and ou...
PAUL ACQUASANTA We did a really nice job in the second half asserting ourselves against a more physical team than we...
DAVE WOODALL Learn to believe in your capabilities and at the same time be happy for the success of others as hap...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves ha...
BLAISE PASCAL If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves ha...
BLAISE PASCAL We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD We are not supposed to live just for others to make us happy- we are to figure out what we can do fo...
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD And then I say to myself that we should believe in that which we felt when we were strong and happy ...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE We must be inspired to expect more from ourselves than what we believe to be possible!
DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD You can be happy in life , if you simply avoid two things, comparing & expectation.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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RANSOM RIGGS The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do u...
ERIC HOFFER We are custodians. We are stewards. Our actions are being watched by others around us. Someone is lo...
ANGIE KARAN We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than ...
CHARLES SCHAEFER Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.
MARTY RUBIN When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
OSCAR WILDE It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Fortune and humor govern the world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is not enough to succeed, others must fail.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.
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FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD How can we expect somebody else to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, ye...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Weak people cannot be sincere.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwi...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recogni...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conve...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, a...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount ...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acqu...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselve...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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