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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
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Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
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Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
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Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities.
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
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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.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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