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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

— Ogden Nash

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

— Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

— Napoleon Hill

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

— Horace

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

— Epictetus

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— William James

✗Opposing Perspectives

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

— Jose Marti

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

— Arthur Rimbaud