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The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.