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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
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A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
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After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Be happy or die.
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Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
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Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
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Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.
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But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
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Call no man unhappy until he is married.
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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
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False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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For who is pleased with himself.
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Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.
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Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
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Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.
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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
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Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.
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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
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Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
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Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.
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Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object
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Happiness is a journey not a destination.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
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Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.
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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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Happiness is a positive cash flow.
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
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Happiness is a sort of action.
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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfecte