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The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
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The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
― Frederick Douglass
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.
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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.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
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