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What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience. -- Marianne Williamson
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines. -- Terence McKenna
Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness? -- C. S. Lewis
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. -- Baron de Montesquieu
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches. -- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Happiness must preclude false indulgence and physic. -- Jane Austen
True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'. -- Buddhadasa
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own. -- John Lubbock
Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them. -- Aaron Hill
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. -- Helen Keller
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared. -- Baron de Montesquieu

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