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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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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
– Dale Carnegie
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
– Dale Carnegie
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
– 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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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
– Johnny Carson
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
– Jimmy Carter
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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
– Willa Cather
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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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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
– 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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Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
– Margaret Cho
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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
– Deepak Chopra
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
– Emile M. Cioran
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See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
– James Freeman Clarke
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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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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
– Jeremy Collier
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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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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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
– 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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Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
– Andrea Corr
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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
– Pierre de Coubertin
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
– William Cowper
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
– William Cowper
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
– Quentin Crisp
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
– George William Curtis
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
– Leslie Caron
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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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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
– William Cobbett
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We do not believe in having happiness imposed upon us.
– Jose Correa
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I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
– Jonathan Davis
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
– Democritus
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
– John Dewey
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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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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
– Denis Diderot
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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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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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
– Norman Douglas
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
– Peter F. Drucker
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
– John Dryden
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
– Alexandre Dumas
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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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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
– Ernest Dimnet
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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
– Eleanora Duse
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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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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
– Jonathan 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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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
– George Eliot
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
– George Eliot
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
– Henry Ellis
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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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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
– 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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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
– Desiderius Erasmus
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
– Euripides
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
– Isabelle Eberhardt
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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.
– Monica Edwards
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There is wisdom in truth but not always happiness in knowledge.
– John Ellis
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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
– Euripedes
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There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
– Euripedes
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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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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
– William Feather
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
– Henry Fielding
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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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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
– Malcolm Forbes
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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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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
– Henry Ford
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
– Anatole France
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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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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
– 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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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
– Sigmund Freud
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
– Robert Frost
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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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I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
– Brenda Fassie
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
– Francois Fenelon
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Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
– Rachel Field
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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.
– Debbi Fields
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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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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
– Mahatma Gandhi
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