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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal t

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. – Olympia Brown

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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. – Olympia Brown

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. – Jean de La Bruyere

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With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama

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