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" Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it. "

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" Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the creed of authority in every field; the solidarity of mankind and the cause of peace against the patriotism of militarism; social reform against the existing relations of society. "

" True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. "

" Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be. "

" The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. "

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" What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. "

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" Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. "

" Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. "

" The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding. "

" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance - it's a silly thing to strife for. But satisfaction - if you seek satisfaction, you can succeed. Satisfaction is knowing that you're doing the best that you can do; you're living your life to the fullest. "

" How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. "

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" Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. "

" When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. "

" The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. "

John Mason Brown

" The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. "

" I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite. "

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" I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. "

" Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. "

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

" There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. "

George Washington

" If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. "

" Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' - might improve. "

" Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. "

" Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. "