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" The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. "
F. H. Bradley
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" The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding. "
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" It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people. "
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" Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. "
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" I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy. "
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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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" Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. "
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" 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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" I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it. "
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" I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. "
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" We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us. "
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" Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness. "
Aldous Huxley
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" 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. "
Dave Grohl
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" If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. "
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" Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. "
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" What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy. "
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" Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. "
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" It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. "
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" 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. "
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" Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. "
Ayn Rand
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" Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. "
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" I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. "
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" Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. "
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" Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "
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" There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. "
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