Christine Sneed Quotes
So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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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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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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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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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
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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 want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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There is no guarantee what will give you happiness any which way. I know many married people who are unhappy.
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I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.
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Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!
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I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
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So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.
