Alain de Botton Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Emotional Quotes

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

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There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

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The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

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But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

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A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free.

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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.

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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

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Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.

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A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

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The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue.

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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