It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

—Agnes Repplier

About Agnes Repplier

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Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855 – December 15, 1950) was an American essayist.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

—Agnes Repplier

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

—Agnes Repplier

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

—Agnes Repplier

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We all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.

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You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.

—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie

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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.

—Bertrand Russell

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You made me happy when I should have been miserable. You were the only person who could reach me, and maybe that scared me. You accepted me—broken and faulty.

—Monica Alexander in Buried Castles

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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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