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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
– James Allen
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
– Barbara de Angelis
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Final and perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence... For perfect happiness the intellect needs to reach the very Essence of the First Cause. And thus it will have its perfection through union with God... in which alone man's happiness consists, as stated above.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
– Aristotle
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
– Aristotle
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
– Jane Austen
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
– Jane Austen
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Happiness is a positive cash flow.
– Fred Adler
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In Port Headland, happiness comes smithereen-shaped.
– Jonathan Aitken
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.
– Charles Baudelaire
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Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.
– Walter Benjamin
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One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
– Bo Bennett
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
– Jeremy Bentham
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
– Ambrose Bierce
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The name of happiness is but a wider term for the unalloy'd conditions of the Pleasur of Life, attendant on all function, and not to be deny'd to th' soul, unless forsooth in our thought of nature spiritual is by definition unnatural.
– Robert Bridges
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
– Phillip Brooks
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All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
– Buddha
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
– Buddha
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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.
– Buddha
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
– Leo Buscaglia
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America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.
– George W. Bush
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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
– Lord Byron
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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
– Lord Byron
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Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
– Anita Baker
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Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness.
– Harry F. Banks
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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
– Mildred Barthel
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Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared, and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.
– Julien Benda
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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving. Make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
– Amanda Bradley
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
– Helen Gurley Brown
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Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
– Fanny Burney
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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
– Richard de Bury
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
– Albert Camus
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You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
– Albert Camus
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
– Albert Camus
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
– Thomas Carlyle
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
– Thomas Carlyle
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
– Dale Carnegie
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
– Dale Carnegie
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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
– Dale Carnegie
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Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
– Nick Cave
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
– William Ellery Channing
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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
– G. K. Chesterton
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
– Emile M. Cioran
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
– Confucius
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
– James Fenimore Cooper
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
– William Cowper
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
– George William Curtis
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The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Allan K. Chalmers
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We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us.
– Jose Correa
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
– Democritus
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
– John Dewey
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
– Bo Derek
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Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.
– White Eagle
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Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
– Mary Baker Eddy
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God grant him peace and happiness but never an understanding of what he has lost.
– King Edward VIII
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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
– Tryon Edwards
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I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
– Albert Einstein
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
– Albert Einstein
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Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
– Albert Einstein
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People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
– Carmen Electra
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I owe my future married happiness to trade union legislation. In 1986, when Rik Mayall and I toured Australia, we had to have a support act of two Aussies for every one Brit, so they booked an all-girl band called The Jam Tarts, which she was in.
– Ben Elton
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If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
– Epictetus
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
– Epictetus
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There is wisdom in truth but not always happiness in knowledge.
– John Ellis
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
– William Feather
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
– Gustave Flaubert
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Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself. If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.
– Harrison Ford
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
– Henry Ford
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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
– Sigmund Freud
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I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.
– Donna Fargo
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Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.
– John Arbuthnot Fisher
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Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.
– John W. Gardner
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness - It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.
– Harold S. Geneen
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness.
– Andre Gide
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Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
– William E. Gladstone
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Happiness consists in activity. It is a running steam, not a stagnant pool.
– John Mason Good
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Men who love humanity have all dreamed at least once during their lives of bringing all their fellow men together in a state of carefree happiness. And only the world of the theater ever really succeeds in doing this.
– Jean Jacques Gautier
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
– Al Ghazali
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Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships.
– John Gottman
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
– Robert Grudin
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The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
– William Hall
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To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
– Christopher Hampton
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
– Robert A. Heinlein
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In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.
– Ernest Hemingway
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
– Napoleon Hill
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
– John Howe
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
– Langston Hughes
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
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