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Baruch Spinoza - All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh - For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Thomas Jefferson - It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Marquis de Sade - Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Richard Bach - Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Ambrose Bierce - Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Albert Schweitzer - Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Deepak Chopra - Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
C. S. Lewis - You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
David Brainerd - If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
John Dryden - Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
George Burns - 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.
Robert Green Ingersoll - Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Baltasar Gracian - Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
William Ellery Channing - How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
Richard Bach - If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
F. H. Bradley - The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
Leo Rosten - Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Helen Keller - True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Ernie Banks - You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Percy Ross - You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.
Euripides - Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Bertrand Russell - Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Booth Tarkington - So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Leo Buscaglia - What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Andrei Platonov - Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Anatole France - Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Albert Camus - But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Chuck Palahniuk - The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Sarah McLachlan - Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
Alphonse Karr - Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Friedrich Schiller - Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Dalai Lama - If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Malcolm Forbes - When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Helen Keller - Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Pearl S. Buck - Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Dale Carnegie - Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Agnes Repplier - It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Bette Davis - A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Joseph Roux - When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
Bertrand Russell - A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Don Marquis - Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Mark Twain - There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Jose Marti - Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Baruch Spinoza - Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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