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" A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness. "

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" Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don't forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I'll ever achieve. "

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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? "

" Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. "

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" To me, flowers are happiness. "

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" I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy. "

" I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and my prospects of domestic happiness, and I am ready to sacrifice my life also, with cheerfulness, if that forfeiture could restore peace and good will among mankind. "

" This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world. "

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" The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light. "

" There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. "

" Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God. "

" To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. "

" Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. "

" If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked. "

" The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. "

" For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. "

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" When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you. "

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" As a survivor of the 20th-century Race Wars, my back remains unbent, and I move forward for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all who were created equal in God's eyes. "

" I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin! "

" Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it. "

" The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be. "

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" Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. "

" In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith? "

" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "

" Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. "

" Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. "

" Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! "

" Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. "

" So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. "

" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "

" Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. "