Best Quotes About Happiness (Top 100)
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
Helen Keller
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni Morrison
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
John Lennon
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud
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If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Marilyn Monroe
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Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa
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Happiness is loving your enemies.
Charles M. Schulz
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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
Hunter S. Thompson
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There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
Jane Austen
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
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The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Hunter S. Thompson
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To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Eckhart Tolle
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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Happiness is self-connectedness.
Aristotle
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
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Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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I've got nothing to do today but smile.
Paul Simon
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
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I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx
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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Charlotte Bronte
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I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
Shel Silverstein
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
Maya Angelou
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
Anais Nin
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I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
William James
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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
Voltaire
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
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Happy girls are the prettiest girls.
Audrey Hepburn
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
Gabrielle Roy
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin
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The days that make us happy make us wise
John Masefield
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates
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I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan
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I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
Og Mandino
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
Herman Melville
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I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
Drew Barrymore
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I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.
Haruki Murakami
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To get the full value of joy you must have someone to share it with
Mark Twain
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
Even More Happiness Quotes
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
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To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
Woody Allen
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
Al-Ghazali
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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott
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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Daphne du Maurier
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The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Andy Rooney
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Immanuel Kant
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place
C.S. Lewis
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Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
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I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.
Lewis Grizzard
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
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Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?
Chuck Palahniuk
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It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
John Waters
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
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If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Henry Miller
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Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
Benjamin Franklin
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Ayn Rand
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
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Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Nelson Mandela
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To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
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You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
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Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.
Corrie Ten Boom
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Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.
Greta Garbo
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
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If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Welles
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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
Helen Keller
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
Edith Wharton
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas
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There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
Nikki Giovanni
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
George Sand
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
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Love is a beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
Andy Rooney
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
Richard Bach
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
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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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Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.
Charles M. Schulz
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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Deepak Chopra
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Mae West
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One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Dick Gregory
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You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John Lennon
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Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
John Lubbock
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Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
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Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?
William Arthur Ward
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
Mother Teresa
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
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Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
Marva Collins
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire
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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.
Elizabeth Berg
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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Mason Cooley
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I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Henry James
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein
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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Charles Dickens
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Richard Bach
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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Oprah Winfrey
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen
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I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
Henry David Thoreau
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin Phelps
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.
George Washington
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Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera
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To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.
Hans Christian Andersen
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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
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I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless
and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.
Robin Williams
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Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"as I am surprisingly often"why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Richard Dawkins
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
Marcel Pagnol
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There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.
Dan Millman
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It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.
Ella Fitzgerald
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
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When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
Maya Angelou
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The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
Richard Rohr
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I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
Marlene Dietrich
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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Booker T. Washington
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
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Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
Nikki Giovanni
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The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
Margaret Atwood
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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
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The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
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The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
Deepak Chopra
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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
Esther Hicks
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
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Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.
Gene Hill
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
William James
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You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
Augusten Burroughs
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Boethius
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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes
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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon Hill
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.
Jack Kornfield
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
Frederick Buechner
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The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.
Pete Wentz
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There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
Anthony de Mello
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
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We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.
William James
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Jodi Picoult
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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And the tree was happy
Shel Silverstein
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No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey
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Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
Oscar Wilde
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius
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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
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Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.
Carl Sandburg
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The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.
Life and love go on, let the music play.
Johnny Cash
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The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
Paris Hilton
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Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
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A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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A multitude of small delights constitute happiness
Charles Baudelaire
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Henry James
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You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette Davis
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I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
Peter Tosh
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
Robertson Davies
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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A stumble may prevent a fall.
Thomas Fuller
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Success doesn't come to you… you go to it.
Marva Collins
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Denis Waitley
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.
Audrey Hepburn
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
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Happiness is an angel with a serious face
Amedeo Modigliani
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass
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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.
Louisa May Alcott
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Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin
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One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.
Iris Murdoch
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
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The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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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
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Mary Baker Eddy
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
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Happiness is a habitâcultivate it.
Elbert Hubbard
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Benjamin Franklin
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Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
Bertolt Brecht
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Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti
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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C.S. Lewis
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
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Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.
Haim Ginott
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
William Penn
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
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In summer, the song sings itself.
William Carlos Williams
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Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William Hazlitt
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
Wangari Maathai
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise
Colette
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I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
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I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
Jacques Mayol
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman
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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust
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Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.
David Steindl-Rast
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
William Ellery Channing
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Anthony Trollope
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Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
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Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Red Skelton
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The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy " not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.
Joseph Campbell
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Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
Dennis Prager
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
William Feather
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I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.
Goldie Hawn
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
Cyril Connolly
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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
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It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
Jean Webster
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Ingrid Bergman
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
Hannah Arendt
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I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Cat Stevens
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt
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I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
Katherine Dunham
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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
Saul Bellow
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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~
Norman Vincent Peale
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch
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Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
David Lee Roth
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce
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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
Democritus
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo Derek
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope
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We are all happy if we but knew it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something
to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
James Brown
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Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert
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Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
Stendhal
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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
Florence Nightingale
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
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The right to happiness is fundamental.
Anna Pavlova
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
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We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz
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Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Bernard Meltzer
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Comedy = tragedy + time.
Carol Burnett
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The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
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Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather
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You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
Jim Rohn
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Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Jonathan Swift
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
Wilfred Grenfell
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
Adam Weishaupt
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I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek
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You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch
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A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
Damon Runyon
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Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were
the big things.
Robert Brault
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
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Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
Jane Seymour
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To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
Helen Rowland
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
James M. Barrie
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.
Matthieu Ricard
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New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara de Angelis
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
David Allen
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden
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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
William Feather
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Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson
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We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.
Ethel Waters
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
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Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
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..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself
Jane Austen
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
Ian Anderson
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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.
Norman Cousins
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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten
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The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.
Tommy Lasorda
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Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
Karl A. Menninger
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The triumph can't be had without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
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A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Peter Marshall
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.
Bessie Smith
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
Francoise Sagan
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Leslie Caron
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill
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All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
August Wilson
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The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
Ken Keyes Jr
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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
Earl Warren
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Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
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If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
Andy Rooney
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The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria
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Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands
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The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
James Allen
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Louise Bogan
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
John W. Gardner
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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis
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The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou
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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
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Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony Hopkins
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!
Aaliyah
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
John Howe
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
Augustine Birrell
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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison
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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
Joyce Grenfell
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Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
Gerald Jampolsky
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden Nash
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The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Lucan
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger
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Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.
David Geffen
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
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Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
John Henry Jowett
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
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Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus.
Billy Graham
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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie de Wolfe
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The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness
Lionel Barrymore
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The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.
Emily Post
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
Bennett Cerf
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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Red Skelton
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
Barbara Sher
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.
Carolyn Wells
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Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.
Nathaniel Branden
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
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People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.
Jane Rule
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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
Ted Turner
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Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Jane Porter
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara de Angelis
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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Marian Anderson
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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
Eddie Albert
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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller
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Only a few things are really important.
Marie Dressler
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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
David Sarnoff
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A good education is another name for happiness.
Ann Plato
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
Beatrice Wood
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
William Lyon Phelps
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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe
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Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.
Matthieu Ricard
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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Cyril Connolly
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It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
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Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
Ken Keyes Jr
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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Michael J. Gelb
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Carl Sandburg
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Hannah Arendt
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Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
Anna Pavlova
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman
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I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
Buddy Guy
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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
Joseph Brodsky
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Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
John Lubbock
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A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
Eudora Welty
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Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Mary Pickford
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Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.
Frances Ridley Havergal
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
Gertrude Stein
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Dan Millman
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Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.
Diane Arbus
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
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When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
Joyce Brothers
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks
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Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin
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Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Bertrand Russell
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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
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we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
Sydney Smith
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I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.
Richard Simmons
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
George Eliot
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
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Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
Andrea Thompson
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You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?
Frederick Salomon Perls
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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Don Herold
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
Lydia M. Child
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.
Althea Gibson
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Bill Vaughan
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
William Feather
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Happiness is an inside job.
William Arthur Ward
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks
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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
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There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
Frederick Delius
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You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.
Jane Seymour
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The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
Goldie Hawn
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse
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To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.
Mary Baker Eddy
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The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
Deepak Chopra
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Alphonse Karr
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
Sydney Smith
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Ashley Montagu
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Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Jerome K. Jerome
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Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
Eileen Caddy
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Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.
Benjamin Franklin
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How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer
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No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
Red Skelton
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Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
Earl Long
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Fanny Burney
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If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
James Buchanan
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Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
Richard Bach
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People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Joan Rivers
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A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
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Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
Charles Dudley Warner
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Alexandre Dumas
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The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
Raymond Charles Barker
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The secret of happiness is something to do
John Burroughs
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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
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I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.
Linda Ellerbee
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Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Peter
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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
Martha Washington
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
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Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
Aron Ralston
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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock
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Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
William Lyon Phelps
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The happy people are those who are producing something...
William Ralph Inge
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its
counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
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The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael
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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
Fred Allen
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
William Law
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
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You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
Anita Baker
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.
James Taylor
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner
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Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Josh Billings
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.
Robert Southey
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The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.
Herodotus
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle
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Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
Henry Van Dyke
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Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.
Antisthenes
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We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
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The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.
Ruth Benedict
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell
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Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
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Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.
Byron Nelson
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
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A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
Lillian Gish
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Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.
Shakti Gawain
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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
Mary McCarthy
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May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.
Dan Millman
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
Tom Stoppard
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I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.
William James
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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven
Karen Sunde
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington
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I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
Harry Harrison
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Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
J. Donald Walters
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Edith Wharton
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To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
Sydney Smith
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The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Alexander Alekhine
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
Beverly Sills
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A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
Tom Wilson
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Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Happiness is like coke â something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley
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Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles M. Schwab
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon
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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson
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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold
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The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
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It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
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Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing
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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois
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How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made~?
Dan Savage
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Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
Paul Hawken
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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
John Stossel
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People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.
Pearl Bailey
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"ツ鯖n every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.
Susan L. Taylor
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You're never fully dressed without a smile.
Martin Charnin
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True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient
Seneca
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Hugo Black
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Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.
Charles Wolfe
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The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.
Frederic Bastiat
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Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Eileen Caddy
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Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.
James Russell Lowell
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Pearl Bailey
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Better is to bow than breake.
John Heywood
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Bertrand Russell
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Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.
Bernadette Roberts
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius
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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
Charles Sumner
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman
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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Hector Hugh Munro
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Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway
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One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
Ira Gershwin
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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
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Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
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Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
Gladys Taber
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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
Melody Beattie
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Hosea Ballou
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
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Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth
William McKinley
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
Christopher Hampton
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie
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Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
William Feather
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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.
Charles de Montesquieu
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There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.
Gelett Burgess
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Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
Hugh Sidey
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
Monica Edwards
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Greg Anderson
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith
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The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
William H. Seward
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
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I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland
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I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee
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Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Francis Hutcheson
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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
Hugh Walpole
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The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides
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We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Ethel Percy Andrus
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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent
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Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
Samuel Pepys
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy
Ben Stein
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Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Jodie Foster
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Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
Stella Benson
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Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
Nan Fairbrother
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Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
Grandma Moses
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I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have
Frederick Keonig
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All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'
Bob Newhart
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Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.
Eliza Cook
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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson
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Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
Cher
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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
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See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
James Freeman Clarke
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We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
Cyril Connolly
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There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.
Francois Fenelon
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him
Marguerite Duras
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Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.
Will Ferguson
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We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
Agnes Martin
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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
Stuart Cloete
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Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
Francis Quarles
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Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
Elizabeth Dole
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
Pierre Corneille
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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
August Strindberg
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The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.
Colley Cibber
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It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia Barr
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
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Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
Elizabeth Carter
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Helen Gurley Brown
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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Margaret Fuller
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Oswald Chambers
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
George Bernard Shaw
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Seek not outside yourself, Heaven is within.
Mary Lou Cook
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The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
Rosalia de Castro
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We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?
Ivy Baker Priest
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The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.
John Vance Cheney
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People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
Irwin Federman
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Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard
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Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
Francesca Reigler
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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Lawana Blackwell
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Orange is the happiest color.
Frank Sinatra
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Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller
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I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
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To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.
Frederick E. Crane
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen
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A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!
Tom Wilson
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The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
Rene Descartes
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No one is happy all his life long.
Euripides
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Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
David Frost
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang Tzu
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You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
Thomas Traherne
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Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Arthur Murphy
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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
Thomas Traherne
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper
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To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.
Swami Vivekananda
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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
Wayne Dyer
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It is better to play than do nothing.
Confucius
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset
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It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
Charles Peguy
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.
Harold Geneen
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
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The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
Hugh Walpole
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In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.
James E. Faust
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It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Helen Keller
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The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side
Margaret Carty
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The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
William Feather
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Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.
Judith Crist
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Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.
Jan Struther
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent
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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.
E. F. Schumacher
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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
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Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
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When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.
Fanny Brice
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
Karl Shapiro
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain
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We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.
Walter Savage Landor
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
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For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Bette Howland
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I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.
Jason Ritter
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When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
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There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.
Henry Drummond
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Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
J. Donald Walters
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No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
Lydia M. Child
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I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.
Bryant Gumbel
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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
James Thomson
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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide
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Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.
Barbara Bush
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I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Louise Erdrich
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
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Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.
Stacey Charter
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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Ogden Nash
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What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant
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Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
Allen Klein
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Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. Forbes
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This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.
Joanna Baillie
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It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
Georges Duhamel
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If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.
R. H. Tawney
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Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Roger L'Estrange
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If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
A. Edward Newton
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
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To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.
Frederick E. Crane
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The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
Celia Green
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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Where thou art, that is home.
Emily Dickinson
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Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
Agnes Martin
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Happy the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
Alice Meynell
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Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
Lisa Alther
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
Epicurus
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No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
Solon
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Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy
Gretta Brooker Palmer
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More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.
Thomas Traherne
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Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
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Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
James Allen
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
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Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
Joseph Joubert
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If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.
Chinese Proverbs
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Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.
Adela Rogers St. Johns
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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley
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Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours
Swedish Proverb
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Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Frank McCourt
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Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
Harriet Martineau
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Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
Karl Popper
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Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.
Freya Stark
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There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.
Jan Myrdal
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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux
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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Saint Augustine
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
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Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie
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I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…
Dalai Lama
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Von Goethe
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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
Kahlil Gibran
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For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.
Dalai Lama
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles
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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
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Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
Eugene O'Neill
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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
Brenda Ueland
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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet
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The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Gustav Jung
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
Harold S. Geneen
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No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal
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The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
John Tillotson
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Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.
Robert J. McCracken
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Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
Julia Roberts
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
Andre Gide
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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
Alexander Pope
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope
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Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
John W. Gardner
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You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.
Emmet Fox
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Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles
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When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.
L. Ron Hubbard
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All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honore de Balzac
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
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The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.
David Hume
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Happiness means quiet nerves.
W. C. Fields
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To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is — not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.
Joseph Campbell
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A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained
James Madison
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Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Zig Ziglar
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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.
Margaret Atwood
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It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
George Eliot
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Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz
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The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Publilius Syrus
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No man is happy who does not think himself so
Publilius Syrus
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If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
Bertrand Russell
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
Russell Baker
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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Nathaniel Branden