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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
~ Charles Spurgeon
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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
~ John Lennon
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“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
~ Gabriel García Márquez
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“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
~ Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
~ Steve Maraboli
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
~ Steve Maraboli
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
~ Dale Carnegie
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
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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.
~ George Santayana
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
~ Sydney J. Harris
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Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
~ Jim Rohn
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
~ Helen Keller
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
~ Wayne Dyer
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
~ John Barrymore
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
~ Albert Camus
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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
~ Ashley Montagu
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
~ Charles Morgan
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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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Make us happy and you make us good.
~ Robert Browning
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~ Saint Augustine
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
~ Mark Twain
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
~ William Feather
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
~ Anne Frank
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~ Joseph Addison
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
~ Bertrand Russell
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Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
~ George A. Sheehan
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~ Winston Churchill
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
~ Maxim Gorky
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
~ George Sand
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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
~ Salvador Dali
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
~ Samuel Johnson
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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
~ A. A. Milne
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Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
~ Andrew Delbanco
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The happy have whole days,
~ Colley Cibber
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If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
~ Taisen Deshimaru
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
~ Aristotle
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
~ E. B. White
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Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
~ Werner Erhard
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It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
~ Georges Duhamel
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
~ Josh Billings
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Happiness is a form of courage.
~ Holbrook Jackson
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One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
~ Mother Teresa
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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
~ J. D. Salinger
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
~ William Ralph Inge
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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
~ Jacques Prevert
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Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
~ Janet Lane-Claypon
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
~ Albert Camus
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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
~ Walter Savage Landor
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
~ Edith Wharton
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
~ C.P. Snow
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
~ Mark Twain
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
~ Maria Mitchell
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
~ Kin Hubbard
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
~ Audrey Hepburn
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
~ Immanuel Kant
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
~ Joseph Joubert
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
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Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
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You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
~ Alyson Noel
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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
~ Robertson Davies
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Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
~ A. A. Milne
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
~ Berkeley Breathed
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Happiness is an inside job.
~ William Arthur Ward
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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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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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
~ Seneca the Younger
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Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
~ Don Herold
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~ Anton Chekhov
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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.
~ Sigmund Freud
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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 Dostoevsky
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
~ Bertrand Russell
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
~ Freya Stark
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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
~ Ernest Dimnet
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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
~ William Shakespeare
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
~ J. D. Salinger
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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
~ Bertrand Russell
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
~ Don Marquis
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
~ Leslie Caron
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We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
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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.
~ Helen Keller
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The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
~ Doug Larson
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We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
~ Booth Tarkington
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
~ Carl Jung
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
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When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
~ Nhat Hanh
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
~ James M. Barrie
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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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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
~ John Lennon
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
~ Albert Einstein
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Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
~ Mother Teresa
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
~ Aristotle
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Whoever is happy will make others happy.
~ Anne Frank
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
~ Epictetus
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
~ Oscar Wilde
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
~ Agnes Repplier
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
~ Dalai Lama
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
~ Denis Waitley
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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
~ Helen Keller
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The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
~ Anne Frank
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
~ Marcel Proust
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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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
~ Carl Jung
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Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
~ Bernard Meltzer
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
~ Dale Carnegie
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~ Helen Keller
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
~ Jonathan Edwards
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
~ James Oppenheim
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Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
~ Denis Waitley
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Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
~ Ayn Rand
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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.
~ David W. Wolfe
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Live with the objective of being happy.
~ Anne Frank
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
~ Charles M. Schulz
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
~ Groucho Marx
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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 MacEwen
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If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
~ Confucius
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Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
~ Herman Cain
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
~ Shakti Gawain
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No man is happy who does not think himself so.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
~ Thomas Fuller
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
~ Seneca the Elder
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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.
~ Robertson Davies
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
~ Gautama Buddha
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
~ Lydia M. Child
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If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
~ Robertson Davies
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Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.
~ Joyce Meyer
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I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.
~ Martha Washington
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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~ Dalai Lama
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Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
~ Gerard Way
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
~ John Stuart Mill
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
~ Lucille Ball
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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
~ Mark Twain
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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
~ Friedrich Koenig
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
~ Denis Waitley
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
~ Omar Khayyam
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I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
~ Groucho Marx
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You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
~ Albert Camus
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If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
~ Connie Sellecca
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People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
~ Carl Jung
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~ Gautama Buddha
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Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~ Dalai Lama
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
~ Albert Camus
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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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