Benjamin Franklin on happiness
“You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.”
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Women are books, and men the readers be.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin He that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin One today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin He who can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Security without liberty is called prison.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Security without liberty is called prison.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin No one cares what you know until they know that you care!
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ShamaShama I like the crazy ones- the ones made of a little bit of human and a lot of star.
Lauren EdenLauren Eden Let go and trust in the higher power to guide you.
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Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
ChanakyaChanakya When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.
Tom FordTom Ford Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I’d guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning Delight in the little things.
Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling For a film maker, an Oscar is like a Nobel Prize, you know. So I am very happy… delighted. There is nothing more after this. I cannot hope to get anything more prestigious.
Satyajit RaySatyajit Ray One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy.
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