"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."
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"Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future."
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"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."
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"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."
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"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
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"Live with the objective of being happy."
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"As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love."
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"According to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being. Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever obstacles we face."
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"I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent."
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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
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"The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person."
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"There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving."
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"We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic."
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"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
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"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."
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"Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
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"Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person."
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"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content."
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"You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy."
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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness."
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