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Happiness QuotesFamous Happiness quotes by popular authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Johnson, Helen Keller, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and others.
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[highlight-text]Happiness is action.
David Thomas
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[highlight-text]Learn how to feel joy.
Seneca
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[highlight-text]Life delights in life.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]Joy is your birthright.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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[highlight-text]No pleasure without pain.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Happiness hates the timid!
Eugene O'Neill
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[highlight-text]Where thou art that is home.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]I love and the world is mine!
Florence Earle Coates
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[highlight-text]Happiness walks on busy feet.
Kitte Turmell
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[highlight-text]All happiness is in the mind.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Better to be happy than wise.
John Heywood
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[highlight-text]Man is that he might have joy.
Joseph Smith
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[highlight-text]Laughter is the best medicine.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]What you become is what counts.
Liz Smith
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[highlight-text]Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]My heart is like a singing bird.
Christina G. Rossetti
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[highlight-text]The will of man is his happiness.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]I love myself when I am laughing.
Zora Neale Hurston
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[highlight-text]A caress is better than a career.
Elizabeth Marbury
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[highlight-text]Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Happy is he that chastens himself.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
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[highlight-text]Best to live lightly unthinkingly.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]Everyone speaks of it few know it.
Madame Jeanne Roland
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[highlight-text]Happy the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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[highlight-text]Make us happy and you make us good.
Robert Browning
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[highlight-text]To be busy is man's only happiness.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]There is nothing ridiculous in love.
Olive Schreiner
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[highlight-text]The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
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[highlight-text]Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]We are all happy if we only knew it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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[highlight-text]The end of pain we take as happiness.
Giacomo Leopardi
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[highlight-text]Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Colette
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[highlight-text]Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
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[highlight-text]Having a goal is a state of happiness.
E. J. Bartek
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[highlight-text]The right to happiness is fundamental.
Anna Pavlova
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[highlight-text]The best things in life aren't things.
Ann Landers
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[highlight-text]The mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
Charles Lamb
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[highlight-text]'Tis what I love determines how I love.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]Some pursue happiness others create it.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
E. V. Lucas
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[highlight-text]Sadness and gladness succeed each other.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
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[highlight-text]Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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[highlight-text]Behold we count them happy which endure.
Bible
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[highlight-text]To describe happiness is to diminish it.
Stendhal
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[highlight-text]Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
English Proverb
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[highlight-text]No man can be merry unless he is serious.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]The sweetest joy the wildest woe is love.
Pearl Bailey
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[highlight-text]No man is happy unless he believes he is.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honore de Balzac
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[highlight-text]The true object of all human life is play.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
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[highlight-text]Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]He who would be happy should stay at home.
Greek Proverb
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[highlight-text]Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
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[highlight-text]Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.
Denis De Rougemont
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[highlight-text]Seek not outside yourself heaven is within.
Mary Lou Cook
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[highlight-text]Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]I am happy and content because I think I am.
Alain-Rene Lesage
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[highlight-text]The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days.
Bible
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[highlight-text]All I can say about life is Oh God enjoy it!
Bob Newhart
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[highlight-text]Love is the only effective counter to death.
Maureen Duffy
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[highlight-text]A good message will always find a messenger.
Amelia Barr
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[highlight-text]Happiness is a by-product of helping others.
Denny Miller
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[highlight-text]No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Enjoy when you can and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Man is preceded by forest followed by desert.
French graffiti
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[highlight-text]This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
Henrik Ibsen
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[highlight-text]Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
Dr. Melba Colgrove
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[highlight-text]If you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
C. P. Snow
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[highlight-text]A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]To make a man happy fill his hands with work.
Frederick E. Crane
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[highlight-text]Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]Pleasure is not pleasant unless it cost dear.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
Jane Porter
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[highlight-text]I know well that happiness is in little things.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]True happiness consists in making others happy.
Hindu Proverb
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[highlight-text]Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]With happiness comes intelligence to the heart.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]What matters most is that we learn from living.
Doris Lessing
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[highlight-text]If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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[highlight-text]America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike
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[highlight-text]We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
Judith Viorst
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[highlight-text]Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Palmer Sondreal
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[highlight-text]It's no good saying one thing and doing another.
Catherine Cookson
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[highlight-text]A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.
Rumer Godden
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[highlight-text]Happiness ... leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.
Dennis Wholey
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[highlight-text]A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
Horace
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[highlight-text]Where there is great love there are always wishes.
Willa Cather
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[highlight-text]I want a busy life a just mind and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
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[highlight-text]We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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[highlight-text]Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
George Sand
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[highlight-text]He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Bible
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[highlight-text]We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
Charles Baudelaire
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[highlight-text]It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]We must not seek happiness in peace but in conflict.
Paul Claudel
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[highlight-text]It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
Amelia Barr
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[highlight-text]The little things are infinitely the most important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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[highlight-text]If you are not happy here and now you never will be.
Taisen Deshimaru
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[highlight-text]Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.
David Grazin
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[highlight-text]Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.
Irving Kristol
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[highlight-text]To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
Alexander Pope
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[highlight-text]Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change!
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.
Cher
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[highlight-text]He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.
A. Edward Newton
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[highlight-text]Happiness ... is achieved only by making others happy.
Stuart Cloete
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[highlight-text]The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
EH. Bradley
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[highlight-text]Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
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[highlight-text]Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.
Roger Ebert
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[highlight-text]There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
Jane Austen
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[highlight-text]We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]People see God every day they just don't recognize Him.
Pearl Bailey
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[highlight-text]Our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery.
Philip Skelton
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[highlight-text]Happiness ... consists in giving and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
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[highlight-text]The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
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[highlight-text]No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
Lydia Maria Child
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[highlight-text]A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.
Diana Princess of Wales
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
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[highlight-text]Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
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[highlight-text]Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not something you get but something you do.
Marcelene Cox
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[highlight-text]I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
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[highlight-text]Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates
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[highlight-text]Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
Pierre de Beaumarchais
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[highlight-text]Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.
Lisa Alther
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[highlight-text]The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.
Ruth Wolff
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[highlight-text]The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Jean de la Bruyere
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]I'm happier. ... I guess I made up my mind to be that way.
Merle Haggard
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[highlight-text]Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.
Robert J. Havighurst
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[highlight-text]There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
George Sand
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[highlight-text]Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Chuang-tzu
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[highlight-text]One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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[highlight-text]It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
Viktor Frankl
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[highlight-text]They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
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[highlight-text]Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
Channing Pollock
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[highlight-text]Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
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[highlight-text]Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
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[highlight-text]Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.
Charlton Ogburn
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[highlight-text]Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
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[highlight-text]To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]If ignorance is bliss why aren't there more happy teenagers?
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.
Bible
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[highlight-text]We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
Lytton Strachey
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[highlight-text]Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer
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[highlight-text]Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Live virtuously and you cannot die too soon or live too long.
Lady R. Russell
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[highlight-text]Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Remember that happiness is a way of travel not a destination.
Roy Goodman
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[highlight-text]How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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[highlight-text]Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Happiness to some is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
Amy Lowell
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[highlight-text]Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.
Grandma Moses
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[highlight-text]In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy.
Karl Reiland
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[highlight-text]A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
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[highlight-text]It isn't our position but our disposition that makes us happy.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]An easygoing husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Ouida
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[highlight-text]Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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[highlight-text]Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
Charlton Ogburn
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[highlight-text]There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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[highlight-text]Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]There is no duty so much underrated as the duty of being happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]It's what you do that makes your soul not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver
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[highlight-text]A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.
D. Elton Trueblood
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[highlight-text]All who would win joy must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
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[highlight-text]The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.
Bernie S. Siegel
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[highlight-text]It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]Happiness has many roots but none more important than security.
E. R. Stettinius
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[highlight-text]Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill
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[highlight-text]Each moment in time we have it all even when we think we don't.
Melody Beattie
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[highlight-text]There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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[highlight-text]To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]I don't want to live-I want to love first and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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[highlight-text]The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]Virtue like a dowerless beauty has more admirers than followers.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
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[highlight-text]Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck
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[highlight-text]He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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[highlight-text]Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore
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[highlight-text]Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warner
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[highlight-text]There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.
Henry Drummond
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[highlight-text]He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.
Jane Austen
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[highlight-text]What is the worth of anything But for the happiness 'twill bring?
Richard Owen Cambridge
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[highlight-text]Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.
Besa Kosova
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[highlight-text]Though language forms the preacher 'Tis 'good works' make the man.
Eliza Cook
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[highlight-text]Those who seek happiness miss it and those who discuss it lack it.
Holbrook Jackson
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[highlight-text]Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Lao-Tzu
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[highlight-text]If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
Edith Wharton
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[highlight-text]A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.
E. Merrill Root
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[highlight-text]Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Barbara Kingsolver
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[highlight-text]Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome
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[highlight-text]The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not a station to arrive at but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
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[highlight-text]The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]When unhappy one doubts everything; when happy one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux
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[highlight-text]To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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[highlight-text]What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette
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[highlight-text]Pleasure is the object duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.
Phyllis Battelle
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[highlight-text]I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.
August Strindberg
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[highlight-text]Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Madame de Maintenon
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[highlight-text]You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
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[highlight-text]We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]A good laugh makes any interview or any conversation so much better.
Barbara Walters
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[highlight-text]Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.
James Freeman Clarke
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[highlight-text]The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The more the heart is sated with joy the more it becomes insatiable.
Gabrielle Roy
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[highlight-text]Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
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[highlight-text]Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.
Theodor Reik
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[highlight-text]The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
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[highlight-text]A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]Like swimming riding writing or playing golf happiness can be learned.
Dr. Boris Sokoloff
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[highlight-text]Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?
William Lyon Phelps
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[highlight-text]Happiness comes from within a man from some curious adjustment to life.
Hugh Walpole
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[highlight-text]Happiness does not depend on outward things but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
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[highlight-text]The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
John Mason Brown
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[highlight-text]We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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[highlight-text]Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock
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[highlight-text]Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
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[highlight-text]Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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[highlight-text]Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]The pursuit of happiness ... is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri
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[highlight-text]I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.
Louise Erdrich
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[highlight-text]To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
William Maxwell
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[highlight-text]Real happiness is cheap enough yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
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[highlight-text]Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]When someone does something good applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
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[highlight-text]To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
Margaret Oliphant
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[highlight-text]Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream not a stagnant pool.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.
Lao-Tzu
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[highlight-text]First health then wealth then pleasure and do not owe anything to anybody.
Catherine the Great
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[highlight-text]The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty
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[highlight-text]Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
A. Edward Newton
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[highlight-text]May you have warmth in your igloo oil in your lamp and peace in your heart.
Eskimo Proverb
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[highlight-text]We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
Ben Sweetland
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[highlight-text]Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Charlotte Bronte
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
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[highlight-text]The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
William Lyon Phelps
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[highlight-text]Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
Harriet Martineau
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[highlight-text]Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.
John Masefield
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[highlight-text]Every minute your mouth is turned down you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Tom Walsh
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[highlight-text]Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.
Laurie Anderson
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[highlight-text]Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery.
Matthew Arnold
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[highlight-text]Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
Lin Yutang
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[highlight-text]Happiness depends as Nature shows Less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper
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[highlight-text]When you come right down to it the secret of having it all is loving it all.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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[highlight-text]No one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.
Garuda Purana
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[highlight-text]Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
William Feather
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[highlight-text]Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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[highlight-text]The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
Vi Putnam
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[highlight-text]Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.
W. H. Auden
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[highlight-text]Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann von Fichte
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[highlight-text]Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
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[highlight-text]It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Erasmus
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[highlight-text]When you dig another out of their troubles you find a place to bury your own.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]The human heart at whatever age opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth
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[highlight-text]Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
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[highlight-text]One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.
Sue Patton Thoele
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[highlight-text]She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent
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[highlight-text]The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
Andre Maurois
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[highlight-text]Behold we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.
Bible
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[highlight-text]When a man has lost all happiness he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
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[highlight-text]It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
Brenda Ueland
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[highlight-text]Everyone chases after happiness not noticing that happiness is at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
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[highlight-text]If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.
John Lancaster Spalding
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[highlight-text]The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Happiness is having a large loving caring close-knit family... in another city.
George Burns
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[highlight-text]Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
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[highlight-text]All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
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[highlight-text]To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever.
B. M. Bower
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[highlight-text]It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world... when we buy it for someone else.
Paul Flemming
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[highlight-text]Our Thoughts Determine Our Happiness High above hate I dwell 0 storms! Farewell.
Louise Imogen Guiney
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[highlight-text]Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.
Paul Bourget
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[highlight-text]Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love the hope of eternal happiness.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
Ken Keyes
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[highlight-text]I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
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[highlight-text]If you want to die happily learn to live; if you would live happily learn to die.
Celio Calcagnini
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[highlight-text]Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
William Feather
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[highlight-text]What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
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[highlight-text]Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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[highlight-text]Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.
Elizabeth Arden
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[highlight-text]The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
Lionel Barrymore
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[highlight-text]Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.
Zona Gale
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[highlight-text]A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
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[highlight-text]The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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[highlight-text]It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.
Charles Peguy
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[highlight-text]If thou wouldst be happy ... have an indifference for more than what is sufficient.
William Penn
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[highlight-text]I am convinced that we must train not only the head but the heart and hand as well.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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[highlight-text]Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
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[highlight-text]For the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin
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[highlight-text]Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
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[highlight-text]Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman
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[highlight-text]If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Joseph Roux
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[highlight-text]A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.
Jodie Foster
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]Enjoy yourself. These are the 'good old days' you're going to miss in the years ahead.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
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[highlight-text]Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
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[highlight-text]Not all of us have to possess earth-shaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
Myrtle Auvil
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
Sir James Matthew Barrie
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[highlight-text]He that despiseth his neighbor sin-neth; but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he.
Bible
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[highlight-text]A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller
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[highlight-text]It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes And men grow better as the world grows old.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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[highlight-text]The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson
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[highlight-text]The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
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[highlight-text]It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps; with it alone she lives.
Ouida
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[highlight-text]Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
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[highlight-text]Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert Schweitzer
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[highlight-text]Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.
Bertha Damon
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]To live as fully as completely as possible to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
Llewelyn Powers
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Robert Brault
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[highlight-text]Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.
John Burroughs
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[highlight-text]A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
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[highlight-text]We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
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[highlight-text]For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan
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[highlight-text]Build a little fence of trust Around today; Fill the space with loving work And therein stay.
Mary Frances Butts
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[highlight-text]Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
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[highlight-text]The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.
Grenville Kleiser
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[highlight-text]When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness. I was right.
Graham Wilson
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[highlight-text]Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.
Jodie Foster
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[highlight-text]That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Lock
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[highlight-text]In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong but something greater: it seems inevitable.
Margaret Sherwood
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[highlight-text]There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that you ain't learned nothing.
Lorraine Hansberry
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[highlight-text]Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven up above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
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[highlight-text]If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
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[highlight-text]Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
May Sarton
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[highlight-text]Is life worth living? Aye with the best of us Heights of us depths of us- Life is the test of us!
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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[highlight-text]Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
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[highlight-text]The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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[highlight-text]Every family is a 'normal' family- no matter whether it has one parent two or no children at all.
Shere Hite
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[highlight-text]Money or even power can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. Forbes
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[highlight-text]Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all but most of us look the other way and lose it.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
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[highlight-text]The principles we live by in business and in social life are the most important part of happiness.
Harry Harrison
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[highlight-text]The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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[highlight-text]I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
Joseph Roux
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.
Olive Schreiner
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[highlight-text]Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Wilder Lane
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Anne Ridler
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]As the sergeant said to the recruit: 'You might as well be happy mate - no one cares if you ain't.'
Ralph Ricketts
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[highlight-text]I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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[highlight-text]Happiness comes fleetingly now and then To those who have learned to do without it And to them only.
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
Jane Seymour
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[highlight-text]All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.
Saint Mary Margaret d'Youville
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[highlight-text]I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.
George Burns
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]This is wisdom: to love wine beauty and the heavenly spring. That's sufficient-the rest is worthless.
Theodore De Banville
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[highlight-text]They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
Edith Wharton
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Parenting at its best comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic involuntary unconditional love.
Sally James
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[highlight-text]We live in an ascending scale when we live happily one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
Christian Bovee
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[highlight-text]Every job has drudgery. ... The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.
M. C. Mcintosh
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action.
Willa Cather
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic.
Gary Rogers
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[highlight-text]Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of a life.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Simplicity clarity singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway
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[highlight-text]If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.
A. Neilen
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[highlight-text]Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo C. Rosten
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[highlight-text]Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish preparation?
Jane Austen
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[highlight-text]Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many amid great affluence are utterly miserable.
Tacitus
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[highlight-text]Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
Amanda Bradley
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Robert Burton
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[highlight-text]In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Enjoy your happiness while you have it and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.
Joseph Farrell
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[highlight-text]There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
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[highlight-text]We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.
Elizabeth Bowen
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes of itself.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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[highlight-text]My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
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[highlight-text]There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.
Ivy Baker Priest
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[highlight-text]I am one of those people who just can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.
Polly Adler
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[highlight-text]Life is not always what one wants it to be but to make the best of it as it is is the only way of being happy.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use.
Ella Baker
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[highlight-text]Few are they who have never had the chance to achieve happiness ... and fewer those who have taken that chance.
Andre Maurois
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[highlight-text]The 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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[highlight-text]Pleasure is a reciprocal; no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]There's a thread that binds all of us together pull one end of the thread the strain is felt all down the line.
Rosamond Marshall
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[highlight-text]But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
Oriana Fallaci
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[highlight-text]We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
Ken Keyes
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the only sanction in life; where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Happiness happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
Joseph Conrad
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[highlight-text]You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.
Peace Pilgrim
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[highlight-text]Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
Leo Tolstoy
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[highlight-text]I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
Lauren Bacall
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[highlight-text]Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]The man of pleasure by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be is often more miserable than most men.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Juvenal
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[highlight-text]If I were to suggest a general rule for happiness I would say 'Work a little harder; Work a little longer; Work!'
Frederick H. Ecker
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[highlight-text]Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.
Shirley Abbott
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]We can sometimes love what we do not understand but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
Anna Jameson
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[highlight-text]Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.
Julia Child
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
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[highlight-text]Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.
Robert R. Updegraff
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[highlight-text]Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill
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[highlight-text]Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.
William H. Sheldon
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[highlight-text]When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]The more you trust your intuition the more empowered you become the stronger you become and the happier you become.
Gisele Bundchen
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume
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[highlight-text]A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]All the goodness beauty and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.
Georgette Leblanc
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth a book and a friend and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
Fernandez de Andrada
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[highlight-text]Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]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.
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still; Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.
Frances Ridley Havergal
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something; to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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[highlight-text]To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
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[highlight-text]It is in virtue that happiness consists for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.
Zeno
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14 600 human beings happy for a little time at least.
Charley Willey
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[highlight-text]I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Clement R. Attlee
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Men are made for happiness and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself: 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
Anton Chekhov
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[highlight-text]Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all of the time.
Julia Child
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[highlight-text]The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.
Mel Gibson
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.
Jean Illsley Clarke
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[highlight-text]All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet I kiss her feet.
Marguerite Wilkinson
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.
Barbara Pletcher
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[highlight-text]If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care then the happiest individual... would be I think an American cow.
William Lyon Phelps
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Deliberately to pursue happiness 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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[highlight-text]And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself; may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
Horace
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it; seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tyron Edwards
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[highlight-text]I don't think that... one gets a flash of happiness once and never again; it is there within you and it will come as certainly as death.
Isak Dinesen
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[highlight-text]If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.
W. Beran Wolfe
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[highlight-text]Happiness is a resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.
Norman Bradburn
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties; wise he is free from perplexities; bold he is free from fear.
Confucius
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[highlight-text]I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.
Julia Child
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[highlight-text]To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Horace Mann
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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.'
Henry Fielding
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[highlight-text]The high prize of life the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]We hear voices in solitude we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.
Amelia Barr
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[highlight-text]Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.
Donald Law
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[highlight-text]It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize.
W. H. Auden
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[highlight-text]There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.
Kay Boyle
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy
Franz Kafka
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Those who have easy cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments regardless of money 'making it' or success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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[highlight-text]The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
Ruth Benedict
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
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[highlight-text]My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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[highlight-text]Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgment our chances and our capabilities.
Agnes Repplier
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[highlight-text]Accept the pain cherish the joys resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions-'If I had my life to live over I'd do it all the same.'
Joan Mcintosh
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[highlight-text]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 lie happiness.
Gelett Burgess
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[highlight-text]Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in 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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear inexorable fate and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.
Virgil
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[highlight-text]When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
Rosalia Castro
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[highlight-text]To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette Davis
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[highlight-text]We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Pierre Corneille
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!
Heinrich Heine
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]To serve thy generation this thy fate: 'Written in water ' swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.
Mary Clemmer
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[highlight-text]Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings and yet be very respectable.
Ntozake Shange
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[highlight-text]Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.
Prince
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[highlight-text]It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]What sunshine is to flowers smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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[highlight-text]No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.
Mary Ann Allison
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[highlight-text]ur labours and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham drudgery and broken dreams it is still a beautiful world.
Max Ehrmann
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see like a rainbow or feel like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin
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[highlight-text]. . . the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy they also sing.
Bible
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[highlight-text]False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.
Charles de Montesquieu
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]I don't think about whether people will remember me or not. I've been an okay person. I've learned a lot. I've taught people a thing or two. That's what's important.
Julia Child
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]A happy life is made up of little things: a gift sent a letter written a call made a recommendation given transportation provided a cake made a book lent a check sent.
Carol Holmes
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.
George Matthew Allen
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[highlight-text]In violent and chaotic times such as these our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order in making little havens of our homes.
Susan Kaufman
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[highlight-text]Man's happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles which afford the mind a healthful stimulus and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.
E. Wigglesworth
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[highlight-text]Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]If we could learn how to balance rest against effort calmness against strain quiet against turmoil we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life.
Josephine Rathbone
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[highlight-text]It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Henri
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[highlight-text]Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
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[highlight-text]I went back to being an amateur in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work routine sets in and that's the death of work and life.
Ada Bethune
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[highlight-text]The cure for all 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 Maria Child
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[highlight-text]The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.
R. Briffault
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[highlight-text]From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.
Patty Duke
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[highlight-text]Let him that would be happy for a day go to the barber; for a week marry a wife; for a month buy him a new horse; for a year build him a new house; for all his lifetime be an honest man.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.
Horace Walpole
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Being asked one day what was the surest way of remaining happy in this world the Emperor Sigismund of Germany replied: 'Only do in health what you have promised to do when you were sick.'
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Not only is there a right to be happy there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
John Sutherland Bonnell
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[highlight-text]The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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[highlight-text]Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiapirelli
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[highlight-text]Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat weariness self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks.
David Grayson
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[highlight-text]Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
Smiley Blanton
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[highlight-text]If solid happiness we prize within our breast this jewel lies And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow From our own selves our bliss must flow And that dear hut-our home.
Nathaniel Cotton
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[highlight-text]Joy has nothing to do with material things or with a man's outward circumstance ... a man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.
William Barclay
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[highlight-text]To seek after beauty as an end is a wild goose chase a will-o'-the-wisp because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.
Ada Bethune
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[highlight-text]Small kindnesses small courtesies small considerations habitually practiced in our social intercourse give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
Mary Ann Kelty
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt
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[highlight-text]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.
Hugh Black
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[highlight-text]Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow too but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris a lark a bluebird or a dewy morning glory.
Mary McLeod Bethune
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[highlight-text]There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]At rare moments in history by a series of accidents never to be repeated arise flower societies in which the cult of happiness is paramount hedonistic mindless intent upon the glorious physical instant.
Colm Maclnnes
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[highlight-text]Conscience as I understand it is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right regardless of personal ends and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.
Margaret Collier Graham
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[highlight-text]Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go; Scatter bits of courtesy-watch them grow and grow. Gather buds of friendship keep them till full-blown; You will find more happiness than you have ever known.
Amy R. Raabe
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[highlight-text]People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end. ... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
Ken Keyes
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long 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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[highlight-text]From birth to age eighteen a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on she needs good cash.
Sophie Tucker
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[highlight-text]The truth is laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought choked half strangled or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love and to be hurt often and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
J. E. Buckrose
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you and not you overtake it.
John Burroughs
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heartfelt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[highlight-text]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 conversations of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John D. Rockefeller III
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[highlight-text]Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett
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[highlight-text]Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it except for a brief period; the search after it is rarely rewarded by the discovery but there is an admirable substitute for it... a contented spirit.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
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[highlight-text]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 L. Morgan
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[highlight-text]Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Most true happiness comes from one's inner life from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly a good inner life is difficult to achieve especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
W. L. Shirer
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[highlight-text]It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are 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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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones not the birthdays the graduations the weddings not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
Susan B. Anthony
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[highlight-text]The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing 'to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot ' to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly
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[highlight-text]What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating drinking and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
Sarah Bernhardt
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[highlight-text]Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us on 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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[highlight-text]Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords: but like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
Samuel Johnson
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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 beautiful hair let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
Audrey Hepburn
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[highlight-text]Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but my friend these I reckon will give you a good lift.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]Let your boat of life be light packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures one or two friends worth the name someone to love and to love you a cat a dog enough to eat and enough to wear and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome
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[highlight-text]Happiness is so hard to define and foolish to define. Am I acting? That's the worst thing you can ask yourself. You can be happy suddenly. It can spring on you not when you reach a plateau. You can be happy going backward or going down. You can be happy at the loss of something.
Steve Martin
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[highlight-text]My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person born on the hottest day of the year conceived on a Christmas Eve made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.
Anna Quindlen
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying 'Wow this is it. I guess I'm happy. I've got a home that I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself.' If there's something else to happiness let me know. I'm ambitious for that too.
Harrison Ford
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[highlight-text]An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool-shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple-teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep-wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise-follow him.
Lady Isabel Burton
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today this hour this minute is the day the hour the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good with all of its trials and troubles and perhaps more interesting because of them.
Robert R. Updegraff
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire a little surplus to give you confidence a little too much work each day enthusiasm for your work a substantial share of good health a couple of real friends and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.
J. Kenfield Morley
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[highlight-text]Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]If an Arab in the desert were suddenly to discover a spring in his tent and so would always be able to have water in abundance how fortunate he would consider himself; so too when a man who ... is always turned toward the outside thinking that his happiness lies outside him finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Seren Kierkegaard
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[highlight-text]The genius of happiness is still so rare is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.
Ellen Key
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford as smart as Henry Kissinger as noble as Ralph Nader as funny as Woody Allen and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen as smart as Jimmy Conners as funny as Ralph Nader as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford-but you'll take him anyway.
Judith Viorst