Happiness Quotes
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You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Ezra Taft Benson
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You must be the best judge of your own happiness.
Jane Austen
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The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
Wendy Mass
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Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for 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.
Aristotle
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Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.
Abraham Lincoln
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
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Happiness is a journey rather than a destination.
John Lombardo
10,000 Maniacs
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
Al-Ghazali
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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
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... when he saw her sitting there all alone, so young, and good, and beautiful, and kind to him; and heard her thrilling voice, so natural and sweet, and such a golden link between him and all his life's love and happiness, rising out of the silence; he turned his face away, and hid his tears.
Charles Dickens
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Why go further and further,
Look, happiness is right here.
Learn how to grab hold of luck,
For luck is always there.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
Epictetus
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Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.
Christine Sneed
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Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community.
Dalai Lama
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She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.
Virginia Woolf
