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Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Walk away from gossip and verbal defamation. Speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

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Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ↗

— Storm Jameson

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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

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I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny. ↗

— Daniel Johns

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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