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" When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection. "
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" When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness. "
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" It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. "
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" 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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" Happiness is always a coincidence. "
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" I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't. "
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" 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. "
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" Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species. "
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" Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. "
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" One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. "
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" Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. "
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" Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. "
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" If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. "
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" The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. "
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