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"Be virtuous and you'll be happy? Nonsense! Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous." James Gould Cozzens Rate this Quote
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." The 14th. Dalai Lama 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people." Thomas Davidson 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy." Robertson Davies Rate this Quote
"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." Robertson Davies 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts." Clarence Day 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Any enjoyment is weakened when shared." Marquis de Sade 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts than tears do." Mme. de Sartory Rate this Quote
"Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles." Dorothy DeBolt 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something." Chauncey Depew Rate this Quote
"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears." Rene Descartes 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be." Taisen Deshimaru 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being." The Dhammapada 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." The Dhammapada 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!" Charles Dickens 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 4.8182 average rating Rate this Quote
"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." Marlene Dietrich 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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