"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
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"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill."
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"I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun."
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"If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want."
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"There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it."
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"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
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"I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends"
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"Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing."
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"But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope."
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
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"Every man has his secret sorrows."
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"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people."
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"Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys."
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"At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you."
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"Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight."
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"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
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"You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed."
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"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
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