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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

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"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

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"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."

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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."

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"Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living"

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"No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure."

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"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

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"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

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"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."

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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another."

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"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it."

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"For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants."

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"That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great."

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"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."

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"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

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"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."

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"O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know."

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"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

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"If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source."

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"Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow."

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"The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire."

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"Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves.That's a fundemental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think."

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"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen."

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"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

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"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

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"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness."

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"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."

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"Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it."

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"When we create something, we always create it first in a thought form. If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations."

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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."

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"Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops."

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"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

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"Success in highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which comes only to the man who has found the work he likes best."

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"Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine."

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"When in the pursuit of happiness Obstacles cross our way, When all seems lost And there is a darkening of the day. Remember God in His heaven And it does not cost to call. We'll find despite our troubles We've been blessed after all."

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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves."

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"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness."

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"True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand."

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"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness -- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes, when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love."

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"Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn."

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"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."

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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

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"Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life."

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"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."

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"This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow."

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"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."

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"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."

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"Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness."

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"We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."

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"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort."

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"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

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"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up."

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"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

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"If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered."

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"If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this."

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"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

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"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."

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"Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day."

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"Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."

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"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."

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"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness."

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"There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved."

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"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."

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"One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to."

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"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

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"Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn."

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"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

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"The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd."

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"God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER."

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"On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin."

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"Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late."

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"In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy."

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"Let a man strive to purify his thoughts. What a man thinketh, that is he this is the eternal mystery. Dwelling within himself with thoughts serene, he will obtain imperishable happiness."

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"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."

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"The greater part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."

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"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough."

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"The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing."

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"No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

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"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."

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"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."

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"Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others."

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

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"Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings."

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"Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars."

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"There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness."

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"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."

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"Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself."

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"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."

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"I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death."

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"But be, as you have been, my happiness..."

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"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence."

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"When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."

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"I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others."

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"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance."

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"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness."

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"Check out the Declaration of Independence You think it promises happiness No no no, it talks about the pursuit of happiness. The PURSUIT We've become a nation of wimps We think we're entitled to everything, we want to legislate ourselves into some cozy little cocoon. Well, forget it, Nature Boy. There are no guarantees. Life is nasty, brutish, and short."

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"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."

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"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."

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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."

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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

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"I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead."

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"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

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"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

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"A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth."

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"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

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"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."

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"To fill the hour-that is happiness."

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"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved."

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"The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

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"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."

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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise."

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"The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable."

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"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."

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"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."

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"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."

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"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."

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"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

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"Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give."

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"The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own."

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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."

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"The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."

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"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."

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"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

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"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent."

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"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

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"Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

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"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

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"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

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"As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."

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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."

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"Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have it depends solely upon what you think."

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"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

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"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."

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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

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"Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

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"By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration."

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

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"True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self."

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"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

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"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."

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"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness."

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"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."

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"Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go."

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"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy."

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"The secret of happiness is something to do."

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"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."

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"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness it is generally the by-product of other activities."

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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."

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"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents."

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"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 opened for us."

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"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

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"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."

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"Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise."

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"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

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"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

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"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy."

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"The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

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"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

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"I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."

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"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

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"Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is."

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"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

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"The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live."

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"It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery."

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"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."

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"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."

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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

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"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection."

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"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed."

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

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"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

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"Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out -- and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot."

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"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success."

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"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself."

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"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."

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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

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"People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older."

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"When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timourous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence a"

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"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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"It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness."

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"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar"

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"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."

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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

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

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

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"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others"

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"Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it."

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"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."

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"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness."

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"Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."

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"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

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"There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow."

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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature."

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"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves."

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"The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing."

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"For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own."

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"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."

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"Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure where your treasure, there your heart where your heart, there your happiness."

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"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

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"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others"

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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

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"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort somewhere."

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"Faith is the virtue of the storm, just as happiness is the virtue of sunshine."

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