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• Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Happiness, Wish, Miserable

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• It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

  Jean Ingelow

  Happiness, Fashion, Joy

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.208

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• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

  Hosea Ballou

  Happiness, Real, Pay

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

  Goldie Hawn

  Happiness, Attitude, Thinking

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• If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Happiness, Boring

  Limbo (1920) "Cynthia"

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• I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

  Helen Keller

  God, Dark, Grandchildren

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• Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

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• Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

  Anatole France

  Life, Happiness, True Love

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.36, Anatole France

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• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

  Euripides

  Happiness, Joy, Sailing

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

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• Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy Birthday, Men, Unhappy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.336, Modern Library

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• The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Happiness, Thinking, Have A Great Day

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• We possess only the happiness we able to understand.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Happiness, Joy, Able

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• Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

  Alphonse Karr

  Happiness, Joy, Avoided

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• Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Perfect, Absence

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• The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Philosophy

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• Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love.

  Drake

  Love, Happiness, Peace

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, New Year

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• Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Desire

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.55, Mango Media Inc.

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• Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

  Guillermo Maldonado

  Life, Loneliness, Feeling Lonely

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• Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

  Alan Cohen

  Life, Positivity, Past

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• Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

  Mary Alice

  Life, People, Way

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• We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic.

  Hank Green

  Life, Thinking, Negative

  YouTube Channel "vlogbrothers"/"A Few Of My Favorite Things", www.youtube.com. April 01, 2009.

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• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

  DR. LAURENCE J. PETER (1972). “THE PETER PRESCRIPTION HOW TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT”

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