Happiness
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Happiness is an inside job.
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Thousands of candles can be lit 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 is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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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 Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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Life is to be lived forward but understood backward.
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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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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 been opened for us.
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The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
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Never expect to find happiness in the same place you lost it.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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Some pursue happiness, others create it.
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
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The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
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May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
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Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.
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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 nose all the time.
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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
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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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Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
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The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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Employment is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
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Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
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True happiness consists in making others happy.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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Happiness is the ability to recognize it.