Nancy Mitford Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn
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Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
Zach Galligan
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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Silence is my dignity.
Hansika Motwani
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
K. Flay
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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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.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.
Yaya DaCosta
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia E. Butler
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
Daniel Barenboim
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot
