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" In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity. "

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" 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. "

Epictetus

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Peace

Happiness

" You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. "

Vivien Leigh

Happiness

Girl

" Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. "

" I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted. "

" You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. "

" 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. "

" Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? "

" Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed. "

" Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. "

" Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Modern people don't want to be dropped naked into a swamp. We want to tour Yosemite with our water bottles and G.P.S. devices. The natural world is a source of happiness and fulfillment, but only when prescribed in the right doses. "

" I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. "

Kanye West

People

" It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. "

" The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. "

" I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter. "

" Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others. "

" Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. "

" To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else. "

David A. Bednar

Offended

Something

" It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. "

" 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 lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success

Joy

Achievement

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

" 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. "

" Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. "

" The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind. "

" When ambition ends, happiness begins. "

" I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming. "

Linda Evans

My Own

Own

" Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. "

" Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. "

" Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others. "

" When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have. "