The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
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Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness. -
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. -
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. -
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. -
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
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