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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I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.
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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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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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Other people are not here to fulfill our needs or meet our expectations, nor will they always treat us well. Failure to accept this will generate feelings of anger and resentment. Peace of mind comes with taking people as they are and emphasizing the positive.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more than somebody with a Ph.D. in cultural studies at a university.
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All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.
