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" Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. "

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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" Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? "

" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. "

" Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. "

" 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. "

" Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. "

" 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.' "

" All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. "

" The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. "

" Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time. "

" Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. "

" Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. "

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" Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. "

" There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. "

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