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" Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. "

William Feather

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" I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. "

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" A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. "

" My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. "

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" The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. "

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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. "

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

" 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with. "

" What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? "

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

" I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food. "

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" Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. "

" 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. "

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" There's no greater source of happiness than giving yourself to other people. "

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" It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power. "

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" Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. "

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