Quote by Sigmund Freud
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (pref

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. – Sigmund Freud

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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – Sigmund Freud

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Freedom
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Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. – Sigmund Freud

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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. – Andre Gide

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Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. – Colette

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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. – Victor Hugo

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According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek. – John Buchanan Robinson

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Criminals are never very amusing. Its because theyre failures. Those who make real money arent counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. – Orson Welles

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Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. – Mother Teresa

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