“False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.”
— Charles de Montesquieu
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
— Andre Gide
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“Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.”
— Greg Anderson
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
— Oscar Wilde
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“One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.”
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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“The secret of happiness is something to do.”
— John Burroughs
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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”
— Langston Hughes
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“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”
— George Sand
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“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”
— Elbert Hubbard
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“Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.”
— Philo
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