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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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" Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. "

" I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. "

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" You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves. "

" It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. "

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" I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy. "

" Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. "

" Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits. "

" It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. "

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" Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. "

" Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. "

" You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are. "

" Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. "

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" I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields. "

" We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us. "

" It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness. "

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" The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism. "

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" Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. "

" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "

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" The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky. "

" I think happiness is love. "

" I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whether that would be, like, with my boyfriend or my family or at a really fun party - just when you're full of life. "

" I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. "

" My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. "