“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
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happiness
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“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”
“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!”
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.”
“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.”
“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”
“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”
“Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.”
“A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.”
“When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.”
“As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.”
“God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.”
“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.”
“Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.”
“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.”
“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”
“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
“I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.”
“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
“In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?”
“The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.”