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Happiness Quotes
"You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving."
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"You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness."
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"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
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"She laughed and laughed and laughed until the vowels were rolling across the walls and floors, as if they meant to do away with the laws of time and space. It made Ove feel as if his chest was slowly rising out of the ruins of a collapsed house after an earthquake. It gave his heart space to beat again."
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"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."
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"I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and, in truth, I do not know what I have done to deserve the good fortune of becoming Mercedes’ husband."
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"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
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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."
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"They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many."
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"To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness."
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"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile."
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"In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world."
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"I am happy because my mind is always filled with happy thoughts."
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"Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get lost.” Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure-especially during the years of adolescence-is an almost irresistible force."
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"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
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"Take out the garbage...true happiness comes from within not from without!"
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"Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.Wisdom is the science of happiness."
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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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"Never let fear of short term heartache interfere with your long term happiness."
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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."
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"Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live."
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"Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. 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. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself."
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"Gaiety alone as it were is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note."
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