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" Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. "

Margaret Lee Runbeck

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" Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. "

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" Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. "

" Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life. "

" 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. "

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" Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness. "

" 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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" Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. "

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" What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. "

" What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. "

" The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. "

" The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. "

" Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. "

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" There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. "

" I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. "

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" People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it? "

" I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. "

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" Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness. "

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" Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. "

" The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. "

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" How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. "

" I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation. "

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" All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. "

" Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. "

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" Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. "

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" I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. "

" Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. "