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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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"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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"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."
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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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"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
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"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
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"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
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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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"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
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"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all."
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"Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will 'realize' true happiness."
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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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"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."
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"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
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"Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it."
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"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
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"If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it."
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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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"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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"Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk and time to sack out in it and he's as happy as a worm in an apple - asleep."
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"Barley porridge, or a crust of barley bread, and water do not make a very cheerful diet, but nothing gives one keener pleasure than having the ability to derive pleasure even from that-- and the feeling of having arrived at something which one cannot be deprived of by any unjust stroke of fortune."
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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
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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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"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
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"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
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"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
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"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
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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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