"Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you."
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"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
"I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
"It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss."
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."
"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
"O, happy the soul that saw its own faults."
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
"But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness."
"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."
"Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources."
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
"Drink up cause everyone here is good tonight. Except the niggas that I came wit, they good for life"
"If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!"
"Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life."
"One of the bonuses about loving yourself is that you get to feel good."
"There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price."
"Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart."