Bolesław Prus Quotes
Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
Bolesław Prus
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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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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.
Karen Salmansohn
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
Carine Roitfeld
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First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
Maximilian Schell
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I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.
C. S. Lewis
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My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.
Akhenaton
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The creativity that comes from silence, from a quiet heart, feels different from that of ambition to both the creator and the observer. When the artist or the worker is out of the way, both the creator and the observer experience the art as simply a gift, an expression of the impersonal intelligence shared by all. The creator has no need to take credit for it, the observer no need to possess it.
Catherine Ingram
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Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.
Bolesław Prus
