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Quotes weighing contentment against ambition and self-deception.

One of the sharper quotes here argues that a truly happy man confines himself within old limits, suggesting that discomfort, not contentment, drives real progress - a tension that runs through most ideas of Fulfillment.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

Quotes by James Ellroy

Happy
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Nov 07, 2020

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Quotes by James Buchanan

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Quotes by Graham Greene

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

My granddad always said he wanted to make me an England player. As soon as I went on to that pitch against Portugal, I knew he could die a happy man because he'd achieved his aim in life.

Quotes by David Dunn

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I'm a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He's in my top five of all time performers because I don't think people realize just how good he was.

Quotes by Austin Aries

Another quote is more skeptical still, warning that pointing to a happy man usually means pointing to egotism or ignorance in disguise. See Joy and Identity quotes for contrasting takes.

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