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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. -- Anton Chekhov
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. -- Epictetus
My philosophy is very much to encourage my children to forge their own success and happiness, even though that will undoubtedly involve much more modest levels of wealth creation. -- John Caudwell
The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. -- John Grierson
Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. -- D. H. Lawrence
I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective. -- Helen Keller
Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. -- H. L. Mencken
Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy. -- Bertrand Russell
Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life. -- Theodore M. Burton
That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set. -- Robert Neelly Bellah

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