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"It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else."
"I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy."
"It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world."
"Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy."
"Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas."
"When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?"
"To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness."
"I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes."
"Look what you created, only got yourself to blame, I remember when you hated"
"I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all."
"... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time."
"The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply."
"This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother."
"... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics."
