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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
– Greg Anderson
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
– Andy Rooney
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
– William Feather
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
– Sydney J. Harris
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Caring about the happiness of others we find our own.
– Plato
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
– Henry Ward Beecher
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
– Oscar Wilde
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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
– Freya Madeline Stark
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
– Abraham Lincoln
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
– Unknown
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
– Chuang Tzu
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
– Eddie Albert
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I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.
– Paul Thomas Anderson
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
– Aristotle
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
– Saint Augustine
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
– Jane Austen
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Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
– Vittorio Alfieri
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Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
– Richard Bach
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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
– Richard Bach
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
– Robert Baden-Powell
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Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
– Chris Bailey
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
– Hosea Ballou
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
– Hosea Ballou
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
– Honore de Balzac
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
– Ernie Banks
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
– John Barrymore
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
– Georges Bataille
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
– Charles Baudelaire
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
– Walter Benjamin
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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.
– Arnold Bennett
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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
– William John Bennett
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If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
– Bo Bennett
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While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
– Bo Bennett
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
– Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
– Josh Billings
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
– Josh Billings
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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
– Hugo Black
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
– Louis D. Brandeis
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
– Louis D. Brandeis
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
– John Mason Brown
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
– Rita Mae Brown
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
– Pearl S. Buck
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
– Edmund Burke
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
– George Burns
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Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
– George Burns
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
– John Burroughs
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
– Robert Burton
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Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
– Joseph Barbara
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
– Thomas Carlyle
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
– Dale Carnegie
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
– Dale Carnegie
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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
– Johnny Carson
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
– Jimmy Carter
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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
– Willa Cather
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
– William Ellery Channing
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Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
– Margaret Cho
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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
– Deepak Chopra
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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
– James Freeman Clarke
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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
– Jeremy Collier
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
– Andrea Corr
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The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
– Pierre de Coubertin
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
– William Cowper
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
– Quentin Crisp
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In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
– Leslie Caron
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
– William Cobbett
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I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
– Jonathan Davis
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
– John Dewey
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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
– Denis Diderot
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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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.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
– Norman Douglas
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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
– Peter F. Drucker
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
– John Dryden
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
– Alexandre Dumas
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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.
– Ernest Dimnet
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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
– Eleanora Duse
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
– Jonathan Edwards
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
– Albert Einstein
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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
– George Eliot
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
– George Eliot
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
– Henry Ellis
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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