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Posted on May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

“Being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune….Happiness is never grand.”—Aldous Huxley, English philosopher, 1894-1963

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”—Mary W. Shelley, English novelist, 1797-1851

Posted on December 12, 2022December 14, 2022

“Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.”—Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet, 1802-1850

Posted on July 1, 2021July 1, 2021

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”—George Burns, American comedian, 1896-1996

Posted on June 21, 2020

“It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on August 18, 2019August 18, 2019

“Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.”—Epicurus, Greek philosopher, 341-270 BC

Posted on March 10, 2017March 10, 2017

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”—Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist & philosopher, 1821-1881

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