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• In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found.

  David Hume

  Empathy, Apathy, Sullen

  David Hume (1870). “Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political”, p.88

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• True happiness comes only by making others happy—the practical application of the Savior's doctrine of losing one's life to gain it. In short, the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit, that makes our hearts glow in brotherly love and friendship and prompts us to kind deeds of service.

  David O. McKay

  Heart, Kind Deeds, Love And Friendship

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• Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.

  Noah Levine

  Heart, Acceptance, Contentment

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• No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.

  Amish Tripathi

  Simple, Journey, Purpose

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Opportunity, Doors, Keys

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Do you think that every time you make a mistake, He is mad at you and won't talk to you...or that you must somehow make up for it?...Many Christians fail to experience real peace because they don't understand that they are righteous in Christ. Until people stop living according to the way they feel and stand on who they are in Christ, they will never find true happiness.

  Joyce Meyer

  Forgiveness, Christian, Real

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Ordinary Extraordinary, Intelligence

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• Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like this ... The real evil is the power to kill people. Someone who finds himself with that power is cursed. No matter how you use it, anything obtained by killing people can never bring true happiness.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Real, Thinking, People

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

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• Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Wall, Freedom

  "The Resurgence And Allure Of Anais Nin" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

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• True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Firsts, Environment, Available

  Sakyong Miphan Rinpoche (2004). “Turning the Mind Into an Ally”, p.15, Penguin

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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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• Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Positive, Happiness, Buddhist

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• I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Peace, Pain

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary, Doe, Moments

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932.

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• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  Antonio Damasio

  Brain, Scott Fitzgerald, Consciousness

  "The quest to understand consciousness". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• It's true. Happiness is a big thing.

  Joel Parkinson

  Surfer, Bigs, Big Things

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• True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Inspirational, Commitment, Goal

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Hard Work, Sleep, People

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• Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state. It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

  Josei Toda

  Destiny, Daily Activities, Enlightenment

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• The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Successful

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• Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

  S. N. Goenka

  Training, Mind, Enabling

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• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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