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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. ↗

— Aeschylus

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The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

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I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. ↗

— Jane Austen

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. ↗

— Robert Baden-Powell

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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ↗

— John Barrymore

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