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...there is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.


Günter Grass

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There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.
ROBERT BURTON There is no such thing as perfect happiness.
UNKNOWN Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
WILLIAM SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE There is not a “true” happiness and a “false” happiness. Only happiness and meaning. The key...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy
JOYCE GRENFELL There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
JOYCE GRENFELL There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
PROVERB There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
SPANISH PROVERB Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each da...
STEVE MARABOLI It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom o...
LEMONY SNICKET Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.
JIM ROHN There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating
FREDERICK DELIUS There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
FREDERICK DELIUS Confidence in yourself is perhaps the single most important ingredient for leading a life of success...
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Confidence in ourselves is perhaps the single most important ingredient for leading a life of succes...
JEFFREY BENJAMIN To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of perso...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in life.
LILLY SINGH What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
ELIZABETH BIBESCO But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done ri...
MARY OLIVER Happiness is an inside job.
EDD BYRNES Happiness is an inside job.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD Happiness is an inside job
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
THICH NHAT HANH There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
WAYNE DYER There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disgu...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
DENIS DIDEROT If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If y...
CHINESE PROVERB Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.
LILLY SINGH The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think o...
THEODORE REIK Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being ...
ECKHART TOLLE Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
LEO TOLSTOY Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all
ALAN MOORE I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size f...
KANYE WEST That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind o...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
ZHUANGZI Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
CHUANG TZU The hardest thing to find in life is happiness - money is only hard to find because it gets wasted t...
ANONYMOUS Happiness is an angel with a serious face.
AMEDEO MODIGLIANI But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be ...
LAFCADIO HEARN If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordin...
PETAR DUNOV 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in th...
CAB CALLOWAY To praise is an investment in happiness.
GEORGE M. ADAMS Sorrow is an opportunity to appreciate happiness.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the...
JOHN STUART MILL God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. LEWIS Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
WILLIAM JAMES Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
OSCAR WILDE There is only one person responsible for your happiness. Who is it?
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Happiness is the sense that my life is good because my biological needs are being met. Meaning is th...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
MILDRED BARTHEL Happiness is never found in materialistic things; it exists in things that cannot be physically poss...
ELLEN J. BARRIER Happiness is an emotional blessing. Peace is a spiritual depth.
ROBIN BODIFORD For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overal...
RAKUL PREET SINGH Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
WILLIAM JAMES Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
GANDHI Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
UNKNOWN Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Passion may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without Passion.
LALIT BHOJWANI It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures...
GEORGE ELIOT Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentabl...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentabl...
GEORGE SANTAYANA It is an aspect of happiness to suppose we all deserve it.
JOSEPH JOUBERT God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no su...
C. S. LEWIS God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no su...
C.S. LEWIS Happiness is as Sunshine in the Sky.
JAN JANSEN 90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested i...
CAB CALLOWAY Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally.
"No," Sunny answered.
"Me neither," Violet said, "but...
LEMONY SNICKET Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
RANBIR KAPOOR I cannot, however, but think that the world would be better and brighter if our teachers would dwell...
JOHN LUBBOCK Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is...
JOSEF PIEPER Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.
KISHORE BANSAL Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Some work brings money but not happiness,some work brings happiness but not money.Service to poor is...
KOWSALAPATHY False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Life devoid of struggles is a life bereft of happiness because the value of happiness is realized on...
SAM VEDA Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
STUART CLOETE Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it
JOSEPH JOUBERT Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness
GRAHAM GREENE Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
JOHN HARRIGAN when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love
LANA DEL REY Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
ISLOM KARIMOV Happiness held is the beginning; happiness shared is the blossom
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.
ALBERT CAMUS When we are happy, we forget to eat. Then happiness is a primary need, even more important for life ...
ROSSANA CONDOLEO A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
BERNARD LE BOVIER FONTENELLE A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
FONTENELLE Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.
ANIRUDDHA SASTIKAR Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains...
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