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"Why are you alive? To discover joy and to share that joy with others."
Toni Sorenson
"Why are you alive? To discover joy and to share that joy with others."
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"Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness."
Amy Leigh Mercree
"Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness."
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"The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness."
Gayle Forman
"The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness."
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"The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!"
Mehmet Murat ildan
"The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!"
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"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."
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"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well."
Charles Van Doren
"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well."
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"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."
James Allen
"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."
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"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."
Oswald Chambers
"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."
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"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
Alphonse Karr
"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
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"Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven's glory. Because of Christ's resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV]."
Billy Graham
"Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven's glory. Because of Christ's resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV]."
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
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"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
Albert Einstein
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
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"Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should."
Richard Dreyfuss
"Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should."
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"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."
Debbi Fields
"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."
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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
August Strindberg
"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
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"Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind."
Alice Meynell
"Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind."
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"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
Benjamin Franklin
"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
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"How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy."
Paul Sweeney
"How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy."
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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."
Ogden Nash
"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
Buddha
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."
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"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."
William Weld
"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."
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"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
Nicole Kidman
"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
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"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."
Tracy Kidder
"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."
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"I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness."
Ted Nugent
"I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness."
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"Relaxation is the beginning of creativity."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Relaxation is the beginning of creativity."
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"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic."
Robert Wyatt
"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic."
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"Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness."
Merrill Markoe
"Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness."
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"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."
Jodi Picoult
"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."
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"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."
Denis Diderot
"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."
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"I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things."
Hugh Laurie
"I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things."
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"The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection."
William H. Seward
"The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection."
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"But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star."
Victoria Jackson
"But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star."
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"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."
Leo Rosten
"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."
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"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
Blaise Pascal
"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
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"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
Maxwell Maltz
"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
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"It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there."
Elsie De Wolfe
"It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there."
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"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
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"Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized."
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"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."
Sarah Orne Jewett
"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."
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"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods."
Edith Wharton
"They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods."
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"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
Leo Tolstoy
"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
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"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
Publilius Syrus
"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
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"Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy."
Louis L'Amour
"Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy."
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"He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds."
Khaled Hosseini
"He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds."
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"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness."
Leo Tolstoy
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness."
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"Happy all life for ever."
James Patterson
"Happy all life for ever."
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"Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied."
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"Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!"
Tanya Masse
"Happiness is when you realize that your kids have grown up to be AWESOME people!"
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"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."
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"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
Henry Ellis
"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
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