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Happiness Quotes
"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."
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"This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth."
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"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
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"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
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"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."
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"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
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"Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening [now] . . . Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."
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"Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work."
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"I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to."
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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
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"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
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"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
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"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."
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"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
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"I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world."
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"I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year."
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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
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"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
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"Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat."
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"Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat."
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"My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites."
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