"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
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"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
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"... we made much less happy by the kindness of a great writer, which strictly speaking we find only in his books, than we suffer from the hostility of a woman whom we have not chosen for her intelligence, but whom we cannot stop ourselves from loving."
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"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
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"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
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"Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love."
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"A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is."
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"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."
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"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."
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"At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people."
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"Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned."
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"I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it."
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"The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal."
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"We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few."
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"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
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"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually."
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"I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck."
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"Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve."
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"If we develop concern for other people's welfare, share other people's suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes."
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