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Happiness Quotes
"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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"I am happy because my mind is always filled with happy thoughts."
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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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"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
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"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
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"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."
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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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"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
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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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"Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit."
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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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"Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own."
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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
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"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
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"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
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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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"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
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"The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted."
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"You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving."
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"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do."
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"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."
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"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
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"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers."
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"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
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"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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"Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness."
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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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