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" Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. "
Douglas Horton
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" I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. "
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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" I think happiness is love. "
Vladimir Putin
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" The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. "
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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" When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply. "
Mary J. Blige
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" Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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" Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful. "
Tyga
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" And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it. "
Adam Weishaupt
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" I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself. "
Jazz Jennings
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" Happiness is the natural flower of duty. "
Phillips Brooks
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" Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine. "
Donatella Versace
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" Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. "
Plato
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Class
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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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Never
" One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. "
Gustave Flaubert
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" Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. "
Eleanor Roosevelt
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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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" A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. "
Bil Keane
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You
Back
" One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. "
Vanilla Ice
Value
Life
Happiness
" The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
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" Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. "
Deepak Chopra
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" True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature. "
Tara Brach
Us
Home
Love
" When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. "
Debra Messing
Believe
Perfection
Life
" Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. "
Adam Smith
Happiness
Lays
Never
" Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. "
Alexandre Dumas
Like
Fight
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" Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. "
Michael A. Stackpole
Friends
Time
Old Friends
" True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. "
William J. H. Boetcker
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Giving
Religion
" 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. "
Martin Seligman
World
Sadness
Life
" Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness. "
Karen Salmansohn
You
Power
Love
" Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. "
John Stuart Mill
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Without
Possible
" Never mind your happiness; do your duty. "
Peter Drucker
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Your
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" Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. "
Sharon Draper
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Beautiful
Joy