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Happiness Quotes
"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."
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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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"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."
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"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."
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"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."
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"Sing, laugh and be merry because today you're alive."
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"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."
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"You don't need much to give. Give what you have."
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"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance."
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"Now the need for seeking something outside will completely disappear. Once you are blissful by your own nature, your life becomes an expression of your blissfulness, not a pursuit of happiness."
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"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
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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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"Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity."
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"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."
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"It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more."
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"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
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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."
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"Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
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"It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten another's dull task. What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchanges of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?"
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"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."
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"See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
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"People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal."
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"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."
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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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"It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy."
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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."
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"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
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