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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. ↗

— Norman Douglas

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty. ↗

— Peter Drucker

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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be. ↗

— John Dryden

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I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. ↗

— David Duchovny

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Champagne arrived in flûtes on trays, and we emptied them with gladness in our hearts... for when feasts are laid and classical music is played, where champagne is drunk once the sun has sunk and the season of summer is alive in spicy bloom, and beautiful women fill the room, and are generous with laughter and smiles... these things fill men's hearts with joy and remind one that life’s bounty is not always fleeting but can be captured, and enjoyed. It is in writing about this scene that I relive this night in my soul. ↗

— Roman Payne

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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. ↗

— Andre Gide

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. ↗

— Epictetus

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Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. ↗

— Henry Ford

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