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" Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more. "

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" Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems. "

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" My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. "

" More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. "

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Sense

Mind

" Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. "

" There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. "

" A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. "

" When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses. "

" You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly. "

" Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful. "

" Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "

" 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. "

" Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. "

Oscar Wilde

Cause

Happiness

" To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' "

" I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it. "

" 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. "

Charles de Montesquieu

Happiness

Proud

True Happiness

" Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. "

" If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. "

" For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom. "

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Boredom

Happiness

" I am deeply grateful for the concern of all those who constantly prayed for my happiness. "

" My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. "

" People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does. "

" Not every vacation is equal. And theory - the idea that vacations should increase happiness - doesn't always translate to reality. "

" To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. "

" Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. "

" What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's. "

" When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. "

" 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. "

" Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat. "

" The goal of a life free of dysphoria is a snare and a delusion. A better goal is of good commerce with the world. Authentic happiness, astonishingly, can occur even in the presence of authentic sadness. "

" The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. "