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Happiness Quotes
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."
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"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."
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"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
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"Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless."
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"When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium."
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"Nothing shakes the smiling heart."
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"We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ['Happy days are back again']"
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"I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist."
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"Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself."
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"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."
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"Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified."
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"You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves."
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"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."
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"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
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"Life is really the only place you can learn the most important lessons about how to get dressed and to be happy."
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"Happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you."
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"We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. [' Happiness blowing in the wind. ']"
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"Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience."
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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
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"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."
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"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
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"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."
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"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity."
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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
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"So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness."
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"But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half."
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