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“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
“I think and think and think, Ive thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I ...”
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none ...”
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unint...”
