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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
-Marcus Aurelius
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To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
-Francis Bacon
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
-Russell Baker
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It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
-Lucille Ball
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
-Hosea Ballou
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
-James Barrie
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn
-John Barrymore
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Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
-Mildred Barthel
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We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
-R.J. Baughan
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
-Arnold Bennett
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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
-William John Bennett
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
-Edward Frederic Benson
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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
-Jeremy Bentham
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
-Ingrid Bergman
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The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory
-Ingrid Bergman
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
-Henri Bergson
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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
-Ambrose Bierce
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
-Josh Billings
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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.
-Josh Billings
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The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek happiness. Rather, happiness is a blessing that comes to you as you go along; a treasure that you incidentally find.
-Louis Binstock
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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.
-Hugo Black
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Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
-John S. Bonnell
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
-Daniel Boone
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Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us.
-Joan Borysenko
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Books about Happiness
