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Quote by Sigmund Freud
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud

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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. – Sigmund Freud

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. – Quentin Crisp

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. – Mark Twain

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I love acting. Its my playground, it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting. – Chris Evans

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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. – Henry David Thoreau

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