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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
– Greg Anderson
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
– Andy Rooney
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
– William Feather
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
– Sydney J. Harris
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Caring about the happiness of others we find our own.
– Plato
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
– Oscar Wilde
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
– Freya Madeline Stark
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
– Unknown
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
– Chuang Tzu
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
– John Adams
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Joseph Addison
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
– Eddie Albert
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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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I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.
– Paul Thomas Anderson
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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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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
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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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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
– 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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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
– 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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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
– Saint Augustine
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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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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
– Jane Austen
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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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Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
– Vittorio Alfieri
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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
– Richard Bach
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
– Richard Bach
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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 most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
– Robert Baden-Powell
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Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
– Chris Bailey
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
– Hosea Ballou
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
– Hosea Ballou
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
– Honore de Balzac
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
– Ernie Banks
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
– John Barrymore
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
– Georges Bataille
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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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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking 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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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
– Walter Benjamin
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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.
– Arnold Bennett
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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
– William John Bennett
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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?
– Bo Bennett
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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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While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
– 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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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
– Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
– Josh Billings
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
– Josh Billings
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
– Hugo Black
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
– Louis D. Brandeis
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
– Louis D. Brandeis
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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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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
– John Mason Brown
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
– Rita Mae Brown
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
– Pearl S. Buck
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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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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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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.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
– Edmund Burke
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
– George Burns
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
– George Burns
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
– John Burroughs
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
– Robert Burton
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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 the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
– Joseph Barbara
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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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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
– Thomas Carlyle
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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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