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“Happiness in this world when it comes comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit and it leads us on a wild-goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object and very possibly we ma...”
“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.”
“Happiness is not a goal it is a byproduct.”
“Happiness is not a horse you cannot harness it.”
“Conscience as I understand it is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right regardless of personal ends and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and w...”
“The principles we live by in business and in social life are the most important part of happiness.”
“If you aren't good at loving yourself you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
“Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.”
“Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.”
“Resolve to be thyself and know that who finds himself loses his misery.”
“There is only one history of any importance and it is the history of what you once believed in and the history of what you came to believe in.”
“Happiness is not something you get but something you do.”
“I want a busy life a just mind and a timely death.”
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something to secure it in this world we must do something.”
“To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.”
“If you observe a really happy man you will find ... that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of each day.”
“We must not seek happiness in peace but in conflict.”
“The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.”
“He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.”
