“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
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“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves”
“My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.”
“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ”
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness”
“One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness”
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ”
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ”
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh”
“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”
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt”
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
“True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise”
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.”
“The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount”
“The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”