Baruch Spinoza Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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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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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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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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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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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.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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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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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
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Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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It’s one thing to have something go well and be aware of what you’re doing, but it’s another thing to have it go well and know that you were just following your heart. That’s a different kind of reward.
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All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.
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No one likes anyone in the industry...
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... even the devil works for God.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
