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Happiness Quotes
"Nothing shakes the smiling heart."
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
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"Vera had not sensed my approach. She was peering into the instrument and turning knobs with child-like seriousness and ineptitude. It was obvious that she had never used a microscope before. I stole closer to her, and then I said, "Boo!"She jerked her head away from the eyepiece."Hello," I said."You scared me to death," she said."Sorry," I said, and I laughed.These ancient games go on and on. It's nice they do."
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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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"Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it."
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"Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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"Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy."
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"Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience."
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"So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity."
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"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up."
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"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man."
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"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
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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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"By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite."
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"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."
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"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
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"Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it."
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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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"Desire is individual. Happiness is common."
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"That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great."
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"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."
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"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
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"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
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"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
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