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Happiness Quotes

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Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.

- Amy Lowell

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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.

- Peyton Conway March

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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

- Edward de Bono

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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

- Eric Hoffer

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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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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

- Albert Schweitzer

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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

- Carl Jung

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Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

- Mark Twain

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Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

- Henry David Thoreau

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Happiness is a Swedish sunset -- it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.

- Mark Twain

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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

- Thomas Jefferson

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Independence is happiness.

- Susan B. Anthony

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