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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
-Sir John Bowring
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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
-William Boyd
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Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
-Amanda Bradley
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
-John Buchan
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Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again -- this is the brave and happy life.
-J.E Buckrose
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
-Buddha
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
-Buddha
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Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now and then.
-Jimmy Buffett
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Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
-John Burroughs
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
-Samuel Butler
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To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in the hearts you encounter.
-Albert Camus
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
-Albert Camus
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead.
-Albert Camus
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
-Thomas Carlyle
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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
-Dale Carnegie
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
-Dale Carnegie
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