"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
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"Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year."
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"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."
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"The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy."
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"Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy"
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"If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
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"The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness"
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"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
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"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
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"To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them."
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"A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
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"Love is trembling happiness."
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"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
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"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy."
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"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."
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"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."
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"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
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"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."
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"I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks."
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