Happiness
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

George Santayana

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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Johnny Carson

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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.

Albert Schweitzer

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To me, flowers are happiness.

Stefano Gabbana

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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Alexander Smith

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Ambrose Bierce

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Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Robert Baden-Powell

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The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Leigh Hunt

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

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Independence is happiness.

Susan B. Anthony

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I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

Adrienne C. Moore

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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Robert Baden-Powell

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

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Happiness lies first of all in health.

George William Curtis

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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

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God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Billy Graham

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Robert A. Heinlein

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