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Happiness Quotes
"Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community."
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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 not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him."
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"Happiness often relies on one character trait: self-discipline."
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"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so."
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"Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration."
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"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."
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"To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness."
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"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."
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"Three more words. Be happy. Persevere."
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"Happiness is not found in a life lived for the expectations of others.Rather than seek happiness living my life to please the will of others, I will seek happiness where I know it can be found-living my life to please the will of my heart."
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"An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness."
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"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
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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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"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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"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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"Unless and until you give happiness to others you truly cannot be happy."
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"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
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"Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others."
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"Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible."
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"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
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"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
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"The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches."
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"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."
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"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage."
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"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."
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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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"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
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"I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made."
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"If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?"
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