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Happiness Quotes
"They couldn't have known that even this was a lie-that we never really choose, not entirely. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along."
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"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
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"I don't think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me."
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"Don't let your circumstances and the events in your life rob you of the joy of celebration."
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"Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity."
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"I want you to be happy and for me to be part of that happiness."
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"Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage."
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"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."
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"Days that lift us like a wave, when you feel you could live forever."
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"America's Declaration of Independence speaks of “the pursuit of happiness,” but nowhere in the Bible are we told to pursue this. Happiness is elusive, and we don't find it by seeking it."
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"True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself."
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"Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race."
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"At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for?"
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"Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?"
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"Gratitude for being alive is the best way to rise and shine."
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"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual."
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"Anyone who constantly makes you unhappy belongs in someone else's world, not yours."
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"Happiness is important. Fun is everything."
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"Happiness isn't the reward we retrieve after a long struggle. It arrives daily, in those clear moments when our hearts are tender, pricked by the embrace of a loved one, the beauty of a single flower, the majesty of the world in which we are central. Look over your shoulder at how far you've come and all the good things you've experienced and that is when you will see the smiling face of happiness."
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"To be happy without your wants is greatest contentment."
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"You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented."
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"Happiness can only bloom in the garden of peace."
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"Ive been waiting for this moment, The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary."
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