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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expens

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. – Bette Davis

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I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries. – Bette Davis

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I dont take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache. – Bette Davis

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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. – Bette Davis

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This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. Made-in-China goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We cant manufacture the happiness of our people. – Ai Weiwei

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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. – Matthew Arnold

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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. – Thomas Traherne

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