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" Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

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" Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. "

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" Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. "

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" Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. "

" The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. "

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" I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy. "

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

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" The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. "

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" There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. "

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" Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic. "

" A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. "

" Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own. "

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" If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. "

" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. "

George Washington

" I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. "

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" A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. "

" The thing that really matters to me is well-being and happiness. Maybe it comes from knowing people who have tortured themselves trying to meet these strangely narrow and rigorous definitions of what our culture thinks is beautiful. "

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" It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you. "

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" Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. "

" That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. "

" Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. "

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" If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. "

" I used to let other people's struggles affect my happiness. If they weren't happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn't happy, I didn't want anyone around me to be happy. "

" Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. "

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