Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

—Ann Radcliffe

About Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe (née Ward; 9 July 1764 – 7 February 1823) was an English novelist and poet who pioneered the Gothic novel. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, was published in 1794. She is also remembered for her third novel, The Romance of the Forest (1791)...

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Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

—Ann Radcliffe

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

—Ann Radcliffe

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

—Ann Radcliffe

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

—Ann Radcliffe

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.

—Ann Radcliffe

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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

—Alfred Lord Tennyson

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

—Abraham Lincoln

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

—Maxwell Maltz

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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret."… I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

—Jeffrey Eugenides

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