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The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for

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 or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. – Joseph Butler

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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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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony

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Im fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. – Coretta Scott King

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. – Anthony Trollope

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