“The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.”
— Ernest Hemingway
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“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
— Helen Keller
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“And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.”
— Aeschylus
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“Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.”
— Joseph Addison
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“The most simple things can bring the most happiness.”
— Izabella Scorupco
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“We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.”
— Jillian Michaels
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“But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
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“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.”
— John Woolman
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“So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.”
— Alastair Campbell
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“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.”
— J. Donald Walters
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