Quote by Chinese Proverb
If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happi

If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else. – Chinese Proverb

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The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread. – Chinese Proverb

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When we have nothing to worry about we are not doing much, and not doing much may supply us with plenty of future worries. – Chinese Proverb

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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese Proverb

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No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man. – Oswald Chambers

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Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation. – Amy Lowell

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