"One filled with joy preaches without preaching."
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"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."
"I'm scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the longrun"
"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy"
"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."
"We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved."
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it."
"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness."
"You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you... happiness is your natural state."
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn."
"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
"No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."
"I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health."
"when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love"
"The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on."
"There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay."
"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."