Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Author: Khalil Gibran
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Author: Max Eastman
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Author: Herman Cain
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
Author: Albert Einstein
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We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Author: Horace
Source: Satires
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There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
Author: Unknown
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Author: Mark Twain
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Author: Mark Twain
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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Author: Lao Tzu
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Author: Helen Keller
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 9
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Author: Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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