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• Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Laughter, Lying, Achievement

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• It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Differences, Want, Who You Are

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.177, Thomas Nelson

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• The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

  Wendy Mass

  Happy, Being Yourself, Long

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Every Soul a Star”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

  George Eliot

  Self, Preparation, Trying

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.656, Open Road Media

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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.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Change, Being Happy, Attitude

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• True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Happy

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

  Henry Drummond

  Inspirational, Motherhood, Giving

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Addresses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

  Esther Hicks

  Happy, Giving, Wise Words

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• Don't be content in your life just to do no wrong, be prepared every day to try and do some good.

  Nicholas Winton

  Life, Happy, Everyday

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• One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

  Mother Teresa

  Happy, Laughter, Christian Inspirational

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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• A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

  Seneca the Younger

  Stress, Men, Suffering

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• Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Happy, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.26, Penguin

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• False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Laughter, Men, Joy

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• Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and direct all your energies towards it.

  Robin Sharma

  Shining, Over You, Genius

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.207, Jaico Publishing House

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• Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

  Maxim Gorky

  Inspirational, Success, Happy

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• The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

  Andre Maurois

  Being Happy, Business, Past

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• The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

  Russell Simmons

  Keys, Giving, Ingredients

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.103, Penguin

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• Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

  Alice Walker

  Success, Being Happy, Perseverance

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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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Depression, Eulogy

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• Happiness is right in front of you.

  Hafez

  Fronts

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• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  William Blake

  Life, Happy, Peace

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

  Daniel Boone

  Horse, Laughter, Gun

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• A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

  George Eliot

  Women, Heart, Feet

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• It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Dark, Years, Capacity To Love

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• The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

  Sean O'Casey

  Secret, Monotony, Joy Happiness

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