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It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. ↗

— Hugo Black

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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. ↗

— John Dewey

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There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life. ↗

— Eleanora Duse

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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. ↗

— Monica Edwards

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People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Carmen Electra

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True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness. ↗

— Euripedes

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