"Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation."

Farrall, Joseph on happiness
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"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

Erasmus, Desiderius on happiness   

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

Epictetus on happiness
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"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on happiness   

"There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way."

Dyer, Wayne on happiness
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good"

Fountain., John on happiness   

"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness
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"The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour."

Jeans, Sir James on happiness   

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction."

James, William on happiness
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"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."

Jackson, Holbrook on happiness
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"Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on happiness
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"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on happiness   

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

Howard, Vernon on happiness   

"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past."

Horton, Doug on happiness   

"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."

Hope, Bob on happiness
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"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

Hoffer, Eric on happiness
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"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."

Hills, Burton on happiness
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"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on happiness   

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

Colton, Charles Caleb on happiness
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"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time."

Billings, Josh on happiness
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"When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention."

Benson, Edward Frederic on happiness
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"Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap."

Bennett, William John on happiness
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"We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."

Baughan, R.J. on happiness
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"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

Barthel, Mildred on happiness
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life."

Aurelius, Marcus on happiness
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"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."

Angelis, Barbara De on happiness
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"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention."

Anderson, Greg on happiness
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"The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live."

Aristotle on crisis
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"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."

Aristotle on courage
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"The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find."

Binstock, Louis on happiness   

"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."

Black, Hugo on happiness   

"Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy."

Cloete, Stuart on happiness
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"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

Chuang Tzu on happiness
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"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."

Chopra, Deepak on happiness   

"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on happiness
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"The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on happiness