What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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