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Happiness Quotes
"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
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"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
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"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."
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"The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness."
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"I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny."
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"The independence of all political and other bother is a 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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"We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government."
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"Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier."
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"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year."
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"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
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"There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it."
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"Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here."
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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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"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face."
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"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
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"The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."
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"Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven."
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"The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government."
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"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
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"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
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"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."
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"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."
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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. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star."
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"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."
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"It is beyond a doubt that everyone should have time for some special delight, if only five minutes each day to seek out a lovely flower or cloud or star, or learn a verse to brighten another's dull task. What is the use of such terrible diligence as many tire themselves out with, if they always postpone their exchanges of smiles with Beauty and Joy to cling to irksome duties and relations?"
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"I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness."
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