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" The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. "
Ruth Reichl
Happiness
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Joy
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" It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. "
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" True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. "
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" To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness. "
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" Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it. "
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" I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. "
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" How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. "
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" The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. "
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" Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. "
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" If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. "
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" Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. "
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" God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. "
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" Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own. "
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" Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. "
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" I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited. "
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Me
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" Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. "
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" Life is life, and one has experiences that are painful and some that are very pleasant, and one has reward and sacrifice and more reward and disappointment and joy and happiness, and it's always going to be the same. "
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" Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind. "
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" Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. "
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