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It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation w

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. – Thomas Jefferson

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I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. – Abd-El-Raham

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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. – E.L. Konigsburg

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The gratification of desire is not happiness. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Happiness

Ive run into certain geniuses of individualism – they are very few and far between – who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. – David Duchovny

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People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. – Raoul Vaneigem

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I think poetry is best read to oneself. – Rickie Lee Jones

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