Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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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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I'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around.
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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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We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
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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.
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My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
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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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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
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Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.
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I'm just not somebody who can sit around doing nothing, and all of us in the Foo Fighters have our own things outside of the band. I'm not going to use the cliche that those outlets bring us back fresh and with new ideas, but what I will say is that it keeps us all feeling free - and that creative freedom is a very positive thing.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.
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You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.
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My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
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On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
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People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
