Honore de Balzac Quotes
The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
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It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
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If you dont see me on tour, its because I have found happiness away from winning, and that might be the biggest achievement I could ever accomplish.
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At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.
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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
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More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.
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I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.
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The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.
