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If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

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Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.

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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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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!

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To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

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The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

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It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

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The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

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I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

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Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

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Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

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False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

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