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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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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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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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Happiness is a positive cash flow.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
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Happiness is activity.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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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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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
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The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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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 not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
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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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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.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
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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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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.
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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
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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.
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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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.
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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
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In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
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That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
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It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
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Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
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The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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Be happy or die.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
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Happiness seems made to be shared.
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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