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If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
-Chinese Proverb
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Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
-Chinese Proverb
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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
-English Proverb
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
-Anon.
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Where one is wise two are happy.
-Proverb
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While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
-Proverb
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He is rich who owes nothing.
-Proverb
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Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
-Proverb
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There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
-Proverb
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Joseph Addison
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-Joseph Addison
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
-Joseph Addison
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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
-Joseph Addison
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
-Joseph Addison
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Happiness is a positive cash flow.
-Fred Adler
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Call no man happy till he is dead.
-Aeschylus
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
-Louisa May Alcott
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
-Alan Alda
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
-Greg Anderson
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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
-Robert Anthony
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
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...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
-Aristotle
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
-Aristotle
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-Aristotle
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Books about Happiness
