Happiness

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A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Nothing more than education advances the prosperity, the power, and the happiness of a nation.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

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The happiness of society is the end of government.

John Adams

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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Ayn Rand

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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

Rosalia de Castro

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I get way too much happiness from good food.

Elizabeth Olsen

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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Adam Smith

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

W. Bruce Cameron

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Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ogden Nash

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

Ambrose Bierce

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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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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

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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.

Bob Hope

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