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Happiness

«Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.»

Author: Ernest Hemingway | About: Happiness, Intelligence | Keywords: intelligent, rarest

«Happiness hates the timid! So does science!»

Author: Eugene O'Neill | About: Happiness, Timidity

«Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.»

Author: Storm Jameson | About: Happiness | Keywords: at risk, capacity, comes, deeply, enjoy, feel, Feel the Need, freely, happiness, needed, risk, risked, risking, simply

«Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.»

Author: Theodore Isaac Rubin (psychiatrist, Writer) | About: Happiness | Keywords: afterglow, demanded

«Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.»

Author: John Burroughs (Essayist, Naturalist) | About: Happiness

«Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.»

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novelist, Writer) | About: Happiness, World | Keywords: attained, chase, goose, incidentally, The Object of, wild-goose chase

«Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually»

Author: Stephen R. Covey | About: Happiness | Keywords: defined, eventually, fruit, sacrifice

«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»