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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

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If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing? ↗

— Bo Bennett

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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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Happiness is always a coincidence. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

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Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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