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• Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.

  William L. Shirer

  Happiness, Reflection, Self

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• I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Love Life, Ego

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “What I Believe”, p.22, Routledge

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• With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this bread of angels whence you will draw all the energy you need to fight inner battles. Because true happiness, dear friends, does not consist in the pleasures of the world or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we have only if we are pure in heart and mind.

  Pier Giorgio Frassati

  Christian, Heart, Angel

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• Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of your life, how you integrate them is how you find true happiness.

  Denise Morrison

  Inspiration, Perfect, Expectations

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• True happiness comes only by making others happy.

  David O. McKay

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• Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Regret, Believe, Live Life

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• I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Winning, Two

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “God's Grace to You”, p.7, Whitaker House

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• On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Views, Ordinary

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.5428, Delphi Classics

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• I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

  Nicki Minaj

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "Nicki Minaj: 6 Surprising Revelations, Including Her Thoughts on Lady Gaga" by Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. April 9, 2012.

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• True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Pain, Real

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• Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

  Ellen G. White

  Fountain, Guides, Believer

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.796, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. As a matter of experience, we find that true happiness comes in seeking other things, in the manifold activities of life, in the healthful outgoing of all human powers.

  Hugh Black

  Happiness, Self, Missing

  Hugh Black (1901). “Culture and Restraint”

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• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Expectations, Looks

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• True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Affection, Arise

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.156, Lulu.com

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• There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it. Creativity, love.
  Human beings have a potential and it has names like enlightenment or fulfilment, or liberation.
  True happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
  They say beauty is only skin deep but it's this stuff coming from the inside, absolute vibrant consciousness, absolute bliss

  David Lynch

  Lying, Ocean, Creativity

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• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

  Robertson Davies

  Happiness, Happy, May

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• What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

  William John Locke

  Mind, Logic, Logical

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inner Peace

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• To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.

  Robert Holden

  Happiness, Want, Firsts

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• Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Reality, Healthy

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Happy, Women

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• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Positive, Happiness, Being Yourself

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• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Yoga, Benefits

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'An Apology for Idlers'

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• The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.

  Harold Klemp

  Quests

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