"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." ~~ Washington Irving
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"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~~ Abraham Lincoln
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." ~~ Victor Hugo
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"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." ~~ Confucius
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens." ~~ Helen Keller
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"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the most of everything that comes along their way." ~~ unknown
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us." ~~ unknown
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"May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy and enough money to buy me gifts." ~~ unknown
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"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives." ~~ unknown
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"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government." ~~ Aristotle
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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." ~~ St. Augustine
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"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it files Lives in eternity's sun rise." ~~ William Blake
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"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them." ~~ Albert Camus
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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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"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness." ~~ Robertson Davies
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"Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy." ~~ Euripides
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"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness." ~~ Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree." ~~ Sigmund Freud
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"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy." ~~ Thomas Fuller
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"I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness." ~~ Aldous Huxley
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"We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself." ~~ Samuel Johnson
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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right." ~~ Helen Keller
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"It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while" ~~ Don Marquis
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"Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it." ~~ Jacques Prévert
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"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~~ Marcel Proust
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"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself." ~~ Publilius Syrus
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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." ~~ Bertrand Russell
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"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy." ~~ Bertrand Russell
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"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." ~~ Bertrand Russell
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"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." ~~ George Santayana
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"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes." ~~ William Shakespeare
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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." ~~ Mark Twain
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"Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have." ~~ unknown
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"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad." ~~ EB White
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"Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result." ~~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." ~~ Allan K. Chalmers
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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance." ~~ Anatole France
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"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." ~~ Scottish Proverb
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"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~~ James Oppenheim
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"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye." ~~ Austin O'Malley
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"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." ~~ Burton Hills
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." ~~ Robert Frost
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"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; petty and wealth have both failed." ~~ Kin Hubbard
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"To fill the hour-that is happiness." ~~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." ~~ Oscar Levent
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"Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring." ~~ Chinese Proverb
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"The happiest people in the world are those who have found the life task to which they have been called… [The unhappiest] are those who have not even begun to search" ~~ Robert C. Leslie
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