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Happiness Quotes
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
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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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"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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"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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"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
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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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"Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat."
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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
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"Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat."
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"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
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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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"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
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"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
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"Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect."
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"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."
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"You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving."
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"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
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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 am happy because my mind is always filled with happy thoughts."
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"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
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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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"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
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"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
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"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that."
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"I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving."
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"Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning."
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