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  You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

  Bette Davis

  Weight Loss, Expectations, Decision Making

  "Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success". Book by Gerhard Gschwandtner, 2007.

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• Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything - real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can't get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you're in for the ride of your life.

  Albert Brooks

  Life, Fear, Block

  "Fictional character: Bob Diamond". "Defending Your Life", www.imdb.com. March 22, 1991.

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• How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

  Adam Smith

  Selfish, Men, Compassion

  Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

  Booker T. Washington

  Helping Others, Compassion, Joy

  Booker T. Washington (2016). “Up from Slavery”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Success, Happy

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

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• The joy that isn't shared dies young.

  Anne Sexton

  Joy, Inner Peace, Young

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• Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Success, Happy, Hope

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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  I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy
  because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless
  and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Change, Happy

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  Laughter is an instant vacation.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Family, Laughter

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  God, Lonely, Nature

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

  Vicki Baum

  Happy, Dance, Ballet Class

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happy, Leadership

  "Looking Forward".

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• If you want to be happy, be.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Birthday, Happy

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 352, 2006.

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• There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Joy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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  Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Attitude

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• Act the way you WANT to feel.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Want, Way, Fulfilling Your Dreams

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Nov 06, 2009

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• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happy, Summer, Gratitude

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Happy, Peace, Kings

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• Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Love, Life, Being Happy

  "A Place Where Happiness Is Truly Supreme" by Ed and Deb Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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