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Happiness does not consist in self-love. - Joseph Butler

Happiness does not consist in self-love. – Joseph Butler

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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food. – Joseph Butler

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Food
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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves. – Joseph Butler

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Happiness
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else. – Joseph Butler

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respect
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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. – Red Skelton

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. – Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Happiness

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. – Bertolt Brecht

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good days work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. – Henri Matisse

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True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

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I think romance is anything honest. As long as its honest, its so disarming. – Kristen Stewart

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Popstars really draws you in. Its fascinating. Its interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos werent involved and they werent trying to be world famous. Its the Real World, only better. – Scott Patterson

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For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning. – Jack Klugman

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